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 The other day, I was traveling around Melville looking for a bookstore. I knew there was a Barnes & Noble on Route 110 near the Walt Whitman Shops so I headed there first.
To my surprise and dismay, the store was out of business. The sign on the window said, visit our Manhasset or Westbury stores.
So there are no Barnes and Noble’s bookstores in Suffolk? Are there any bookstores? I looked on my phone for the closest bookstore and couldn’t find one.
The next day, I went to Barnes and Noble in Westbury and found a bunch of bargain books that I hadn’t read that I wanted to read like Malcom Gladwell’s newest book and Deepak Chopra’s book. The books were under $10 so how could you beat it?
I was given a Kindle as a present for the holidays and have been downloading and reading books like crazy. I never thought I would enjoy the kindle. There’s something special about feeling the books and reading a physical book. But I am totally enjoying the Kindle experience and have purchased dozens of books since I received it.
Although I love my Kindle, one of the things I enjoy most in my life is going to a bookstore and perusing around. My favorite section (for those of you who don’t know me well) is the business section. I can spend hours upon hours looking at the latest business books and determining if I will buy this. I never go into a bookstore and don’t buy a book.
Well, actually, once right after I got my Kindle, I went into a bookstore in Florida and flipped through a bunch of books. I ended up buying them through my Kindle instead of at the bookstore, but then I felt very guilty about it so I never did that again!
Getting back to my visit in Wesbury Barnes & Noble, I had a dozen books that I wanted to purchase. I stood online. It was a long line. Twice, the bundle of books fell out of my arms onto the floor. I scrambled to pick up the books and continued to stand online. When it was my turn, I asked the woman what happened to the other bookstores in Suffolk?
“Yeah,” she said, “they went out of business. There just wasn’t enough of a demand.”
“Wow, that is really terrible,” I said. I wondered if people just stopped reading, just read on their mobile devices or Kindles or just didn’t care anymore…
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 What’s going on lately? I feel like everything around me is turning 50!
Preservation Hall turned 50 and had an amazing show to commemorate it at Carnegie Hall. LIFE Cereal is 50 this year. Funny thing is, I never tasted LIFE Cereal before this year!
There’s also a ton of celebrities turning 50 – Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey, Demi Moore, Jodie Foster, Matthew Broderick and Jon Bon Jovi!
At first, I was reluctant to turn 50. The number 50 sounds so old. Yet, seeing who else is turning 50 this year, makes me realize, I’m in good company!
P.S. I’m not 50 yet… but soon…
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 I was in the car the other day with Kristie Galvani, and I was telling her that I have a hard time letting people leave my life, especially if they made some type of an impact. I think I’m still in touch with almost everyone who has touched my life in some way and obviously Facebook and other social networking sites makes it easy!
I have talked with my long lost friends from High School, college and even graduate school. It’s been so exciting for me to catch up with everyone. I’m so glad that social networking sites have brought us all back together!
I’ve also been trying to reconnect with “old” staff members from HJMT. I see Susan Deutch from time to time because we live in the same time but I’ve been trying to nail down a breakfast date for a long time. Before Kristie, Sue was with me the longest. She worked with me in my home office and in the office in Long Beach. When we moved to Westbury, she decided to resign. She was working part time and didn’t want to drive the extra time.
The other night, Kristie and I went out to dinner with Angela Ruggerio and Elisa Gerber. Both had been with the firm almost five years. What amazing people! We met them in a Mexican Restaurant (my favorite… not!) and had such a good time catching up and reminiscing about the past. It’s so nice to like the people you work with. They were part of the family for a long time!
When Jon, the waiter, came to take our order, we all felt as if we were still together.
“I want a drink of Patron on the rocks,” I said as the other three ordered Margaritas.
“Don’t get Patron,” Jon said. “That’s not tequila to sip that’s better in a drink. Look at our list of tequilas and let me know.” I looked down this list and couldn’t believe the page of tequilas that the restaurant had. They weren’t cheap either.
A shot was between $12 and $20. I just picked one. When Jon came back with the order, I gave it a try.
At first, it tasted like a cheap bottle of Seagram’s 7, but the more I sipped, the more I liked.
We laughed, caught up and just enjoyed ourselves…
I guess the morale of this story is, if you come into my life and make some type of a positive impact, I never want to let you go…
Thoughts?
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 The other day, I received a letter from my nephews in Florida. They thanked me for gift that I recently gave them. I read the letter and wondered if schools teach spelling anymore.
I love my nephews who are in the sixth grade but after seeing Dear “Ant” Hilary and other misspellings, it made me wonder if, with all this technology today, if children are learning how to spell correctly?
Then I wondered, what is correct today?
If you read your text messages, you will noticed that we, as a society, have been using UR instead of “You are,” WSUP (instead of what is up?) and btw (instead of by the way). It is common to see a lot of these acronyms and know what people are talking about.
Isn’t that what language is all about? Isn’t language about communicating effectively? If we can communicate effectively through using acronyms and shortened words and people understand what we mean, then isn’t our point taken?
When my nephews wrote dear ant hilary, I knew that they didn’t think I was an ant but an aunt! So does it really make a difference how we spell things as long as our point is getting across?
With spell check and autocorrect, you are less likely to spell wrong, except when autocorrect thinks that a word should be X when you want it to be Y! Then it all becomes all too annoying and your first reaction is to shut off the program, but you don’t.
I was thinking about this for a while and then I read an article by Anne Trubek in Wired Magazine (Feb 2012), entitled, “Use Your Own Words.” I agree with her that we need to evolve. She writes, “English spelling is a terrible mess anyway, full of arbitrary contrivances and exceptions that outnumber rules.”
How true is that? She goes on to look at words like Ough, Dough and Cough. Shouldn’t they rhythm? But instead when said aloud they make totally different sounds.
Trubek claims that before the 1400’s when the printing press first came out, books and documents were rewritten by scribes who spelled words different ways. She said that there were 114 different spellings for the word through. (I still find that most people don’t get two, to or too!)
It’s really an interesting topic and so relates to our society today in terms of where we are heading with all of this.
Is the English language evolving with the use of technology? Will our future language be written in codes like our children use when relating to each other? Should we standardize spelling to be how it sounds?
Love to hear your ideas…
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 I love tattoos. When I saw my first tattoo as a kid, I was frightened. “What is that?” I asked my mom. But it was always in front of the person and my mother would shush me to stop talking.
As I got older in my teens, twenties and thirties, I also thought about getting a tattoo but then was reminded that being Jewish, I would not be buried in the same cemetery as my family. That stopped me from getting one.
Until, I talked with my Rabbi who told me the whole burial thing was an Old Wives Tale. Then I did my own research. There is no place in the bible that says that if you do something to your body, that you can’t be buried!
I started to think. All these years I didn’t want to get them because of this and the whole thing was a scam?
Last year I got my first tattoo. I wanted one to resemble my children and my life line. After that, I wanted one to show unity with my husband and one to resemble me, a butterfly. Although I’m not exactly a free spirit as a butterfly would suggest, I do fantasize about it. Hence the butterfly in all different colors on my ankle!
Some people are very against tattoos and I’m not really sure why. A lot of younger people who have them, hide them from their employers in fear of not getting or losing their job.
Some say you shouldn’t get it in your twenties because you will resent having them when you get older.
Well, I’m older and I recently got three and I love them. And you know what, at this stage of my life, the most important thing is that I’m happy and it really doesn’t matter what other people think… Don’t you agree?
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