Happy New Year!!!

I went out for dinner with my daughter and her friend.  Very cold!  Brrrr.
But really good food!  So they are out having a New Years--me, I watched
Ghost.  Yeah, very chic flick--but I like chic flicks.

My first book of the year is Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit.
I'm a Solnit fan.  Book begins with a humorous story of her attending this
party in Aspen.  The host said to her, in a condescending fashion, about the type
of books she wrote.  She gave him a very brief description of the latest book.
His reply was the there was this Amazing book on the same subject.  Her
friend had to tell him 4 times that was the book she'd written.  His state of
embarrassment followed.

The following chapters are quite serious.  She gets into womens right
away.  How women are silenced.  Their opinions do not mean anything,
My mother didn't want me to go to college.  She said I needed to keep my
job at Roses (equivalent to Walmarts then).  I made a nickle more than
than minimum wage and only worked 32 hours a week.  Anything was
going be a step upward.

The next chapter is statistics of women being abused, silenced.  And after
a chapter regarding politics.  The book is full of quotes, deep thoughts.
She is my favorite author,  She makes me think, learn, and hunger for more.

Entering the two missing chapters in my own book has some problems.  One
chapter is totally different from the existing.  Going to be a bear reconciling the two.

That's it for now.  Time for me to write my affirmations for the coming year.

Have a happy new year.  May the next year be blessed with more happiness
than this year!

All For Now--

Kate Thorn