Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Very inspiring eulogy by Maria Shriver for her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. What an amazing woman she was. I think it is fair to say that she was "a true original." Listening to this makes me want to get out there and make a difference. I felt the same way when President Obama was sworn in, and for awhile I did volunteer with underprivileged teens. I think it's time for me to look around for something else I can do in my community.

August 13, 2009

Happy Birthday to my good friend Silke! Hope you have a fabulous day!

Why not stop by her blog to give Silke your best wishes?

Funky Friday ~ August 7th

It's that time again ~ Funky Friday! TGIFF! Get out there and have some fun this weekend. You know you want to!

A beautiful day in the mountains

It was a gorgeous summer day yesterday, just perfect for a drive to the White Mountains of NH for my friend's birthday bash!

Funky Friday ~ July 31st

I dipped into the vault of "old" photos for this one of my favorite beach. May you have all the fun of a beach day today, no matter where you live or how you spend the day!

Beachin' it!

This has been one rainy summer in New England! But yesterday the sun shone brightly and temps rose into the 80's, making it the perfect day for a trip to the beach. My favorite spot by the sea is Reid State Park, so I headed up there and enjoyed 4 fabulous hours wading through the waves, reading in the sun, and listening to the children splashing and laughing all around me. My photos from yesterday did not turn out very well, so I went into my picture files and found these images so you could share some of the tremendous beauty of this special place. (Click on each photo for a better view.) I've been going to Reid all my life, and it never ceases to delight me! I feel very lucky to be living close to such an ideal place. Hope wherever you are, you're enjoying some relaxing time this season!

Vanity plates

When I first moved to Maine from NYC, I was struck by how many vanity plates I saw while driving. There seemed to be more cars here with vanity plates than I ever saw while driving the Long Island Expressway. As it turns out, Maine ranks sixth in the nation when it comes to the percentage of motor vehicles with vanity plates, and New York is not even in the top 10.

This spring and early summer, I was driving about 70 miles per day to and from work, and so I began to really notice what people had chosen for their license plates. I'm now keeping a list and have decided to share with you a few of the vanity plates I've seen on the roads here in Maine. I don't have a vanity plate myself. Do you have one? If not, what would yours say? I used to want WORDZ (because I'm a writer), but now I think I'd choose something else. Maybe something about Maine, like the one I saw recently, LUV207. (207 is the state's area code.) Or perhaps something about the ocean, since I'm nuts about the coast. Maybe COASTIN or GO2SEA. Anyway, here is a list of some of the vanity plates I've seen.

AYUP
TRUBLUE
EN ROUTE
DEAD [as in Grateful?]
NRTH STR
SHW BYZ
C SPRAY
DIGGIT
GOIN UP
MYETOY
LTSGO
I NO Y
WAKUP
ENUNCI8
JUNGLIST
LOBSTA
PIGSFLY
BEACHBM
XRAYVZN
WEBAD9
URLUVD
P-COCK
WLF MN
SQWASH
NJOYLFE
WCKDGD
LFEISGD
DEJA VU
SKIR
IBELIVE
GR8GOAL
OWLMOON
BUH BY