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I agree Candace. I need permission from the author first She is a friend of my daughter.

Absolutely brilliant! That should be printed,framed and posted on the wall next to every one of those *&#@!# machines!!

Candace

This is Julie, posting in Darlyne’s name; she had trouble getting this pasted in. My friend Emily Keenum wrote a poem about an experience we of the female persuasion know and love.

Do You Like Your Mammogram?

Do you like
your mammogram?

I do not like it
Sam-I-am.
I do not like
my mammogram.

Do you like the breastage squish?
Between the cold and glassy dish?

I do not like that breastage squish.
It’s much too cold a squishy dish!

Do you like the cold-ish room?
Nurse calling out “don’t move too soon!”
Do you like no clothes on top –
The off-one-shoulder nightgown flop
Positioning so awkwardly
each ta’ inside machinery?

I really hate that cold-ish room,
I always want to breathe too soon.
I want to keep my clothes all on
And say goodbye or just so long!

I want to say “no Thanks, I’m fine.”
“No cancer here, just breast divine-
“No need to look, no need to check
all my cells – they grow correct.”

Do you like to get the scary letter
“Come back so we can check you better?”
“We’ll use our trusty ultrasound
To get a clearer look around.”

I do not like to get the letter
for ultrasound to check me better.
That dark, still room and humming noise
Eliminate my bits of poise.

I hate my mammogram, I do.
the ultrasound, I hate that too.

But I noticed this –it wakes me up.
I see my kids, my marriage luck.
I love my ordinary day.
Oh look around, mammograms say.
The world is up the world is down.
There’s bliss aplenty to be found.

And this I like, I like a lot.
The “all-clear” answer that I got.
No problem here, twas just a smear
That’s the news I’m glad to hear.
And now I’m fine. Until next year.

Maybe I will try it again. I think I turned it off too early ,

Darlyne, I did like the movie, but Pam, middle daughter had warned me that the first 17 minutes were weirdly pretty or something. I knew Brad Pitt was in it, so I hung in to see how he was used, and he is a very militant father of three sons, mom is gentle, and the story is disturbingly like life in the 50s for a small town family. Lots of questions, and no real answers. I see its nominated for a best picture in the Oscars, which maybe doesn’t mean much.

Otherwise I’m waiting for that short story book from Amazon, Jesus Shoes.

Jerry, those words are familiar from way deep in my memory bank but I can’t remember the source. This morning listening to the new project to put textbooks on IPads made me wonder if future generations may someday marvel at the remains of those crumbling structures with deteriorating piles of crumbling paper and shelves.

Candace

Remember this? “I am the Library. I am neither walls nor shelves, nor even books that stand in rows. I am the wisdom of the universe captured and arranged for you. I am an open door ENTER.”

Jacky, I started to watch that movie but gave up on it. I thought it was dumb but that is only my opinion. You may like it.

I don’t know the name of her newest book, but I think I’m several behind. I should keep a list of books I’ve read, because I have gotten some that after a few chapters, I realize, I’ve read this. There are almost none that I care to read again, since there are so many out there, books everywhere! I got the Tree of Life, Netlick, based on a 1960 adventure book by Terrence Malick, about a confused man named Jack, who sets off on a journey to understand the true nature of the world. It was reviewed in The Upper Room, so I got curious. Has anyone read it? The movie stars Brad Pitt, and Sean Penn.

16.6 below in Oslo this am. But the house is warm, thankfully.

Jacky

I have been watching The Good Wife also and like it. I just finished the second disk. Friends that watch the current ones recommended it.

I am still reading The Paris Wife. It is about Hemingway’s first wife most in my book group thought the book well written and not great but did stimulate their interest to read more of Hemingway. I want to finish it but don’t find it a page turner. What is Picoult’s new book? I think I have read all of hers.

We finally have snow, but not very much, thankfully, just enough to make it brighter, our surroundings are quite brown, gray and black, except for evergreens, which are not native,and few, so snow is nice. We’ve been watching the first seasons of The Good Wife. She’s a lawyer, who has to go back to work as her husband is falsely jailed, but also did prostatutes sp, The extra info on the first DVD explains that the story’s source was how women have coped with husbands messing up, namely Hilary Clinton, Tammy Baker, Elizabeth Edwards, ect. What I like about the stories is the cases the Good Wife defends. However my sister , who has watched it from the beginning in 09, feels the stories are getting rather far fetched, which often happens when a series runs out of material.

Going to order that Short story book Sweet Tea amd jesus feet, as I need something to read. I have a gift cert that I’ll use for a new Jodi Picoult.

Hope you are all wintering well. Jacky

Good point, Jacky–too often I have to go back when I start reading the next day because I don’t remember the last few pages before I gave up.

Candace

To read faster and not fall asleep.

To read faster.

Yes, they are available as books, and as I understand it, there are several books, some of which are NOT short stories. The authors are: Deborah Smith, Sandra Chastain, Donna Ball and Virginia Ellis. I think they write these tales separately also. There’s one called “Sweet Hush” that I read a sample from on Amazon, that I’d really like to get the book it sounds so good. Check on Amazon, first under Sweet Tea & Jesus Shoes, that’s the shortstory one.

I’ve always like short stories and used to get the collection of the Best SS from our library, but they got so depressing I haven’t read one for many years, but the one you mentioned, bookworm, sounds good, I don’t have a kindle, but maybe its in print?

And we got snow for the new year, our gray world gets so much lighter with the clean whiteness. My grand daughter and I got my cross country skies down from the attic, and went sking. She did very well for never having done it before. We have a tiny hill north of our house, the lake, Darlyne, and she did it without falling and was wondering if we had a “bigger”. We do have the banks of our Red River, every where else is completely flat, but it was too cold to ski the 5 blockes to the river. we’ll try it later.

I paid the 30.00 for the lost book on cd at our library. From now on, I’m checking them in myself. I fairly certain I just dropped the missing one in the return box. They said again, if it turns up, I’ll be refunded.

Hope you all have a wonderfully blessed 2012. Jacky

I downloaded a free book of short stories to my Kindle. Title: “Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes”.
A whole raft of lovely short stories by several authors, dealing with some of our Southern eccentricities, if you will! LOL

As I usually don’t like Short Stories, these were wonderful and well-written too. If you have a Kindle, see if this book is still Free, and download it!

Happy new year to all my friends. We as usual didn’t make till midnight but the NY comes around anyway. There isn’t a lot of time to read but I put the Grisham book aside and started on The Paris Wife, my book group choice. It is good so far.
Ps my iPad won’t let me print the name of this group. It auto corrects to something else.