I had met Rich and Rita a couple of times back when we trailered around. I kept up with them on the camping message board and am sorry to hear that she died. I guess that on a senior net community we can expect that any one of us could go any time.
Darlyne, I think you are thinking of Marge and Histbuffer. As I remember, they were on TV once. There have been quite a few marriages and couplings on SN in the twelve or so years I’ve been here. Some of them have been separated by death, too. I heard that Rita, of Rich and Rita, died not long ago.
Susan
I loved this book. I was fascinated from p.1 to the very last page. The writer is a gifted one.
I don’t know about the answers to your question. When I met them, they were already married. She was in the needlework forum and popped into the book forum occasionally.
Very nice people.
I remember hearing about them. Didn’t they meet at a Senior Net meeting? I think they were on one of the morning shows. It is sad.
Here’s the text of an email I got from Susan this morning - I’m not sure when it happened but I am sad for her.
Jo, Gentsia wrote a post in the old SN that her husband had died. Here’s the
> post. I didn’t know whether you knew it or not. Susan
>
> Ten years ago, a widow and widower met on SeniorNet. They both had come
> from good, long-time marriages. Within days, literally, they knew they had each
> met the LOVE OF THEIR LIFE and their SOULMATE. Within a few short months,
> they married and have had the privilege of living and enjoying the most joyful
> years of their lives, ever.
>
> That widow was me, that widower was my DSH (Dear Sweet Husband) and at 1:50
> p.m.today, MST, my DSH left his earthly body. I thank the Lord for the time
> we had and all the special memories I will always have. My heart grieves.
I’ve not read the book nor seen the movie and I don’t really think I care to.
I found the info about the DV on markdroberts.com very interesting. He’s a Presbyterian pastor in Irvin, CA. He includes a lot of the media about the book and the movie, and what is different in the two.
I know that I am in the minority but I had no desire to read the DC or see the movie. It just didn’t seem to be my kind of book. A friend who both read the book and saw the movie said the movie was better than the book and Julie also did both said if you hadn’t read the book you may have trouble following the movie. At least I would. i may see it anyway.
Our family left yesterday afternoon, and I then rode my bike several miles and washed the kitchen floor. I always feel a bit lonely when they leave, but its partly pure tiredness. Pre-schoolers have so much energy, and the schoolers haven’t much less.
Back to normal, I’m still reading Billy Sunday’s bio, and didn’t realize that he was so involved with prohabition. Our land has gone through a lot of strange rules, hasn’t it.
Also still in Team of Rivals, and didn’t realize that those riots in New York between the Irish and whoever were during Lincoln’s time. I should have though, as i knew the problem was “being drafted” for the Civil War. There was a very bloody movie about this a few years ago, but I can’t remember the name of it.
Our middle daughter and hubby read the D Code and saw the movie, and said they liked them both as a very exciting mystery. I started the book when it first came out and didn’t care for it, so I never finished it. Since its gotten so much publicity I should maybe try again, but probably won’t. I do prefer fact to fiction, but enjoy a good story too.
I’m sure glad you told us who you are now, Myrna; Sla9ter was a total puzzle.
Some of these new electronic things are really confusing, aren’t they. But at least the kids usually know how to operate them. 
I plan to get that book by Diamant; she also wrote The Red Tent, I think, which I also liked. So thanks for the reviews.
And it’s nice to have you back. If you go into AOL books at all, tell the folks to not forget us over here in the blog.
This is Myrna!
I was baby-sitting in a big state of the art new house for ten days. The only one who is able to opeerate the TV is a software engineer. Since he is the one who was on vacation I did not watch any TV. Can’t say I really missed it.
The kids are able to watch DVD’s and videos.
Thanks to Jo, I found my way back t o the blog.
The thick book, The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory, is about the court of Henry VIII. It is fiction based on fact. It was really not my cuppa but I skimmed a lot and finished it because I wanted to see how it came out. Miscarriages, children born the wrong sex (female) and beheadings were not uncommon. The narrator was the winner. If you are a history buff you might like this book. It goes through several years of Henry’s reign.
Good Harbor by Anita Diamant is a story of two women who become close friends. It is about a friendship that most of us would like to have but few of us do. I enjoyed this one.
I meant promise. I thought it looked wrong.
Here I am - I had to re-login and, of course, couldn’t get the right password even though I had it written down, or so I thought. Now I’ll have to find out how to change it from the one I get sent!!!!!!!!!!!!
My new computer is an HP Pavilion, Jerry, and if you had that much trouble with yours, then I agree - they did go downhill, esp if Gateway no longer owns them. Pity cuz I have had no trouble with mine whatever. Gene got me a camera and mike and the Gateway was too slow for that and that is the reason for a new computer.
I tell ya - !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And now, after all this excitement, I’m going to bed!
Finished this book recently and hereby declare it my best read of the year so far (out of 26 books read in 2006). It is a first novel and beautifully written. Takes place during WW2 during the attack on Leningrad in 1941. Nonreligious, quick read, and I loved it.
Gretchen
I will put that book on my list Wede. It sounds like a good one. I saw the movie, Kinky Boots and I really liked it, thought it an excellent view of a different way of life. One friend liked it but another didn’t really. I think that other way of life bothered her.
I have just dipped into Elements of Style, Wendy Wasserstein. About an upper east-side New York pediatrician with a conscience..and a very non-subtle look at the foibles of New York society women. I don’t think I am going to like it.
Also.. just glanced at Chasing Daylight, Eugene O’Kelly. The last 100 days of a dying CEO of a mjaor corporation (true story) after he is diagnosed with brain cancer. It is supposed to be uplifting, but I doubt that I actually read it.
Halfway through this holiday week end, I am home for the evening.. have been out most of the day. I have finished one book and have dipped into three others– all from the library:
. ThePromise of Happiness, Justin Cartwright. An English family in Cornwall, whose oldest daughter, an art historian and dealer, has just been released from prison for “fencing” a Tiffany window. The writing is magnificent, the story engrossing, and I give it an A++.
. Teacher Man, Frank McCourt. Very disappointing, I think. He is mining all of the things he wrote about so forcefully in Angela’s Ashes (which I did like so much.)
Hope you didn’t get another Gateway Jo. I bought a Gateway at Best Buy a little over a year ago and have had it back there nine times since. Gateway ain’t the same great company it used to be. I’ve been told Gateway has been bought out by E Machines.
Rotsa ruck,
Jerry
I went to see the Da Vinci Code on Friday. We have a new theater in town called “Rave”. It is a beautiful theater and huge.
It has 18 theaters, surround sound, digital, enormous screens, large rocking-recliner seats with 4 ft. between rows. A terrific place to see this movie. The first part actually takes place in the Louvre, so you are treated to wonderful pieces of art also, though you don’t have time to browse. The action is so fast-paced. Reviews haven’ t been very good, but I thought it was extremely well-done, acting, suspense. I would recommend it, even though I swear my heart stopped beating a few times. When Ron Howard’s name appeared on the screen as producer,
I thought “Opie!! Who ever would have thought?”.
A new computer is wonderful.
I have the flag up and am off to a movie with friends. had dinner at a neighbors last night and will again tomorrow night. Tomorrow night it will be a political thing.
I’m having a good time visiting with #1 son; we have bought me a new computer as he says my 5-6 yr old Gateway is ‘too slow’ and for the purpose he had in mind, it is.
Tell you about it later.
I’ve checked booksfree.com and it’s scheduled to come out in paperback come October. I’ve put myself on the list.
Thank you Frances for your kind thoughts. Many memories is right. And all good.
Sorry that I missed posting here. I just caught up on all the May postings.
Jo, I am so sorry that you lost Ebony. It is a wrenching experience to lose a much loved pet and companion. This was the first I heard of it. You will have very sweet memories upon which to draw after a long mourning period.
Right now I am reading Ordinary Heroes, by Scott Turow. It is fascinating. A young man and his father are quite distant. Upon his father’s death, the young man finds letters to his Dad from his dad’s fiance (she was his fiance when he went into the armed service during World War II). It opens up a whole new world to him. He is an investigative reporter, so he decides to investigate his father’s past (a court martial). I am only at the beginning of the story, but, as always, he engages you immediately.