Earth Hour 2011

Saturday,       March 26, 2011       8:30pm

The perfect opportunity for the day to stop.  The perfect opportunity to light a few candles.  The perfect opportunity to pour a glass of red wine.  The perfect opportunity to relax.

Thank you Earth Hour!

Remembering Liz

Liz Taylor passed away today.

According to Yahoo News:

She was a child star who grew up and aged before an adoring, appalled and fascinated public. She arrived in Hollywood when the studio system tightly controlled an actor's life and image, had more marriages than any publicist could explain away and carried on until she no longer required explanation. She was the industry's great survivor, and among the first to reach that special category of celebrity — famous for being famous, for whom her work was inseparable from the gossip around it.

Elizabeth Taylor lived a full life and she will be greatly missed. 

World Poetry Day - March 21

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A Very Short Song
by Dorothy Parker

Once,when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad -
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.


Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.

Think Spring!

Paredão - Tamariz Beach

It was such a beautiful 1st day of Spring that everyone came out to enjoy the sun!

With weather like this, we know that summer can't be too far off . . .

Beware the ides of March

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The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.  Ellery Queen

Azenhas do Mar

Azenhas do Mar

Have been enjoying my half-term break this week. Yesterday we drove around Sintra (the mountain) and stopped at Azenhas do Mar. This little hilltop village perched above the Atlantic Ocean is reminiscent of those that you would find in the south of France, Italy and Greece.  We stopped for lunch in another small town called São Pedro and ate at a recently opened (6 months or so) restaurant called São Pedro 18 (St. Peter's 18).  It was way cute.  All in all, a very good day:-)

International Women's Day - March 8

Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final materpiece.             Author Unknown

The way I see it . . .

Starbucks quote #287

You don't have to be the Former Secretary of State to understand why the world is not a better place . . .

Look what they've done . . .

As I reflected on the week (yeah, it's been one of those weeks - lol), Melanie Safka came to mind.  I haven't thought about her in ages. Through the miracle commonly known as the internet, I was able to connect with her and the past.

I found a relatively recent quote by her, "For the first time, I'm not afraid to voice exactly what I feel. I used to feel that I didn't want to say too much, but now I can say anything. I feel like a person who's never been heard. Maybe people think they've heard me, but they never really have. I'm a new artist who is having so much fun with my voice -- a person shouldn't be allowed to have so much fun. I'm the woman I wanted to be when I was sixteen and going for Edith Piaf. It's me -- I'm back."

Yes, Melanie. Me too!