A trip to the library!

I just love going to the library! It's actually an adventure! Why do I amble toward the 14-day books when I haven't read much of the others...just waiting in their jackets for someone to grab them.

Each book seems to be screaming..TAKE ME...TAKE ME! I'm well aware that each book has an author that spent many months selecting just the very right verb..the perfect adjective...the exact pronoun...plus weaving a story that will make the reader not want the book to end.

When I read a book, I become one with the author and I actually become one of the family members.

I'm very particular when I select a book...print can't be large...but not too small either. Must not be too many pages...hard to hold! Must not smell musty and cannot have a coffee stain on it...because G-d knows where it's been when it was being read by a previous person. Many people refer to the bathroom as the library. Don't like to think about those things when I'm in the process of taking home a book.

When I was very young, my earliest recollections about going to the library, and it was considered an event where you couldn't utter a word....and if you did...whisper under your breath.

I recall reading all the Nancy Drew Books...Tom Swift...and many of our great classics.

When I'm reading the hours fly by so swiftly and I don't even think of food.

And if it's a very passionate love scene, I can enjoy without being involved.

So...on this day when it's much too windy to go to the pool, think I'll just stroll into our library and see what I can pick up.

There have been times when I've leafed through the pages because I enjoy the author's work. Often times, they spent themselves writing the perfect book... next one is a huge disappointment.

That's why I grab 3 books, in case one doesn't work out.


What fun!

Still gotta eat don't we!

Now I know what inflation truly is and how we must allow for this naughty word.

Now I know why they say we must have 'growth' in our portfolios to allow for this.

However, I have done this .. and my mutual funds are shrinking and prices are going up.

So...I wonder how I regain a balance.

I know that if you have no home to sell...now is a wonderful time to buy!

I know that because of oil our prices on everything have escalated.

When I was a little girl and my parents were in the throngs of a great depression, my father grew a 'victory garden'. He wasn't much of a gardener...a much better machinist...so we didn't eat off the fat of the land.

I worry about younger people...how they buy milk and bread and shoes.

The 'domino effect' has undone all of us.

We will survive...we will survive!