Dee’s Comments (group member since Jan 27, 2011)

Dee’s comments from the Boomers and Books group.

When my Dad died in the late 90's we emptied his garage and found the paint he used in the kitchen. From 1958. I promised myself then and there I would never put my kids through such nonsense, and I've been very good about it. I have a very small closet where I keep things I can't part with, and it's under control.

My husband, however, still has the boxes from the speakers be bought when he was in high school.In our garage is the bike he bought with the money he saved from his paper route. We also have the fist tank he got for his first apartment. And eight years worth of Aquarium Fish magazine. Did I mention the track medals fron junior high? He's killing me.

So now I need advice from you all - if I sell all his junk while he's on a business trip and he divorces me, will the judge let me keep the house?

Lynn - I'm trying to read everything too, but I've become a lot harder to please. Maybe because I'll start something and think, 'I could have written that better', but I find I'm starting more books than I'm actually finishing. As for Nicholas Sparks, I found he puts characters into what could be challenging situations, but rather than have them hash it all out, he kills one of them off. Haven't read him in years.

Thanks so much for putting my book in the pipeline, ladies! I just started reading Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970 and I hope to review it for B&B as well. This is exactly the kind of music I listened to for hours, so I hope the book is great.

Good Heavens, Sharon, what were you thinking? I just finished The Grave Maurice by Martha Grimes, a Richard Jury mystery that I somehow missed. I'm almost done with A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS that I'm reviewing for Boomers&Books. It's not what I expected, but still enjoyable. Next comes Rebeccafor Chicks On Lit. SO excited!

I've learned that it's okay to let friendshipas lapse. I still have my best friend from the fifth grade, but those high-maintenence women that I clung to are gone. I have to work hard at so many things, I can't justify working hard at having fun.