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Lately, I have been watching a lot of zombie movies. And yes, most of them are terribly bad. Cheesy. Awful, really. For example, last night I watched “Return of the Living Dead, Part 2”. Yikes. It was actually one of the better ones, but it was still terrible. Bad or not, most zombie movies have similar plot devices. Some of these you will also find in horror movies in general, as well as any movie about an outbreak of a virus or other post-apocalyptic movies. I wanted to put together a list of some typical plot devices and things you…

I “read” this book through audio books on my way to Georgia and back again. It was broken into two parts that I downloaded from Audible, each part about 4 or 5 hours. This book, which is currently on the NYT Bestseller lists for Hardcovers, is about a woman who is buried alive by her identical twin sister. The twin then makes an attempt to take over her sister’s life and steal all of her money. Was this the best book ever written? No. Was it decent? Yeah. There were a lot of basic, overused phrases like “She swallowed hard.”…

At first, I was hesitant to read a book about the tensions between blacks and whites in Mississippi during the 1960’s. I mean, haven’t we seen enough of that through Mississippi Burning and other such movies? Don’t they all end with some lead character getting beaten to death or something? No thanks. But Kathryn Stockett’s version of 1963 Mississippi is different. Beautiful in some ways. Heartbreaking in others. In “The Help”, there are three main point of view characters. Skeeter, a 20-something girl who has just graduated from the University of Mississippi and moved back home to live with her…

Yesterday’s drive was no fun. It was very long and I was oh so tired. I’m home now, but I’m exhausted. Overall, the trip was a lot of fun. I feel like I did a successful job splitting my time between my siblings, friends and parents. (A skill that must be studied and learned for many years before it can be perfected, lol.) Getting back into routine is never easy. Especially when you’re this tired. Will write more tomorrow.

I’m heading back to see my family in Georgia this weekend. For a long Easter weekend, really, since I leave tomorrow and won’t come back until Monday. It sounds so simple, but to be honest – going home can be complicated. I want to see everyone who is important to me, but with only a few days, it’s not easy to spread my time around in a way that makes everybody else happy. First, there’s my mother. She pretty much wants me to be with her the whole time. I think she’s beginning to understand more and more that I’m…

Okay, so we don’t really have a pet squirrel. There just happens to be a squirrel in our backyard most days. And in our front yard. And on our roof. And in our trees. He seems to be a friendly little thing. I don’t feed him or anything, but most afternoons when I open the back door to let Snickerdoodle (our pomeranian) outside to go potty, the squirrel is there, hanging out and watching. G had a theory that since Snickerdoodle has a bushy tail, maybe the squirrel thinks she is also a squirrel and not a dog. Hmmm…. maybe…