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I'm pretty sure this is the first time Optometry has become a part of my reading experience. Dr. Georgia Young's career as an optometrist is what caught my interest in reading the novel, I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan.  Next, the title caught my attention. I like saying the words "I Almost Forgot About You." I do admit that at first the title seemed like a tongue teaser. Lastly, I liked Georgia's reinventing herself. I don't know whether reinvention is a true psychological term, or did it come from the pages of Psychology Today? What I didn't like is hearing Terry McMillan's voice so clearly. Nope, I've never personally talked to her but have heard her in interviews. Next time could you tone down your voice, Ms. McMillan? I want to pretend the narrator is a stranger. terrymcmillan

This morning my mind has  gone a wandering. I am in no hurry to hem my ideas and smock my sentences. I want to think for a while about what has made its presence felt again, death. Again, I recall John Donne's meditation. online-literature.com/donne/409/   Meditation XVII XVII. MEDITATION. PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that. The church is Catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all. When she baptizes a child, that action concerns me; for that child is thereby connected to that body which is my head too, and ingrafted into that body whereof I am a member. And when she buries a man, that action concerns me: all mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but

Finally, I'm into "I Almost Forgot About You" by Terry McMillan. I was still lost in the world of "Who Asked You?" by same author. Now, I have all these wonderful quotes and themes popping up around me from the author's newest novel. After thinking about friendship for a little bit, I'm thinking about courage while tasting the slice of Key Lime pie beside me. Yes, courage  always alludes me while cowardice finds me with ease.  Terry McMillan seems to have changed in this novel. Maybe she's gathering up all of life and trying to make a statement about men and love, etc. Since I'm not in that place, I became lost at the first chapter. I became a little bit angry with Terry McMillan. What right did she have to go in a different direction than I the little reader expected? Thank goodness, I put those expectations away and settled in for the restaurant talk with Michael which is a very interesting type of strategic battle with polite boxing glov

While reading "Your People Shall Be My People by Don Finto , I think of unity between people more than disunity. Peace will overtake the world. Israel will become one with Jesus, as the Jewish King coming down through the line of David. This nonfiction book emcompasses more than my individual salvation. It involves nations. It's evangelism on steroids, if I may use that term. Don Finto realizes the importance of amity between people who are truly related to one another in one way or another way. The book is about the beauty of love, for example, shared between a Palestinian and a Jewish man or woman and their children. Until that complete coming together and an arrival of the King of Kings it is necessary to see and feel the tremors of  a world without peace. For example, long ago there was the hatred of the Jewish people during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. The ugly Inquisition which all of us would like to leave forgotten. Of course, there is the Holocaust. Just r

Judith Fertig in "The Memory Of Meringue" writes so much about the flavor of lime, I'm now craving lime. I've never yearned for lime. My favorite flavor is lemon. Let's see in this one paragraph she writes about "April's lime and coconut theme...lime buttercream filling...lime cookie straw...lime bars...lime curd..." I've liked lime Kool-Aid which I haven't drank in years. I've liked lime punch. I've never tasted the age old Key Lime pie. I can't remember the last time that the taste desire  has been so strong within me.  Should I try to bake a Key Lime pie? No, I'll start small. I'll have a cold lime drink today. In my mind,  I can see limes lying in a case in the Produce section of the market. They are a pretty green. Still, they are not as pretty as yellow lemons. judithfertig.com , what'sthediff.net

  Love by Tina Chang My mother now is taking her sheers and cutting through live shrimp. When I was a child she peeled each flushed grape until only the pale fleshy bead remained. She placed them onto a plate in one shining mound, deseeded, in front of me.    http://food.netviral.com , bethfishreads.com Tina Chang, "Love" from Of Gods & Strangers . Copyright © 2011 by Tina Chang.  Reprinted by permission of Four Way Books. Source: Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way Books, 2011) Tina Chang

http://whitehouse.gov In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. ---Thomas Jefferson, 3re President Of USA(1743-1826)