It's been a year. I can't believe it. One year since Michele passed away. I think about her a lot. She continues to be an inspiration to me each and every day. She taught me so many lessons--by example-- about how to be a better person and live a more meaningful life. I've been trying to live many of the things she taught me so that I can keep her close to my heart. Some of these include:Appreciating Family & Friends
Being Kind
Lending a Helping Hand
Remembering--Every day is a GOOD DAY
Living in Positivity
Smiling
Being Thankful
Taking care --mentally--physically--spiritually
Thanks for everything. Miss you.
Laurel & Daphne Wolfe should have practiced some of these lessons in Cathleen Schine's new novel The Grammarians. Laurel and Daphne are identical twins born in the 1960's in New York. They are inseparable little red heads obsessed with words whose prized possession is an old Webster Dictionary. The first part of the book is devoted to the girls as children and their quirky, hilarious family. After the girls graduate from college, they move into an apartment in Manhattan and their relationship begins to change. Daphne becomes a copy editor and grammar columnist devoted to standard English while Laurel becomes a poet devoted to bending the English language to meet her needs. This philosophical difference strains their relationship but add to the mix husbands, children, sibling rivalry, and competition to inherit the Webster Dictionary and the siblings are barely speaking to each other. Find out who inherits the dictionary and if the girls ever talk to each other again when you read this story about what it's like to be an identical twin for yourself. It's about 270 pages or a 3 mile run every Word lover will appreciate.
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