What I'm Reading - January 2008

Over the holiday I managed to run through a couple of books. The first was T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton. I wait with bated breath for her to put out a new book and she didn't let me down with this one. Her 20th book in this series, by my count, Kinsey Millhone, Private Investigator, learns first hand about identity theft. Fascinating and eye-opening.

The second book I read was Running with Scizzors by Augusten Burroughs. This was not a book I particularly wanted to read but felt as though I should as I've read his brother's work. This is a memoir of his childhood experience in a house with an alcoholic father and a mentally unstable mother. The parents divorce, the mother goes insane and the boy goes to live with his mother's psychiatrist who is later convicted of raping his mother. Not fun to read but an example of parents behaving badly that one can learn from.

Holiday Break

We thoroughly enjoyed our break in December. Maggie learned to ride her new bike and the children and I made our annual sojourn to Washington, D.C. to visit the sites. New to us this year was the World War II Memorial - a gorgeous mixture of fountains and pillars representing the fifty states as well as the two theaters of the war - the Pacific on the right and the Atlantic on the left. We had gorgeous weather and also visited Union Station, the U.S. Postal Service museum and the White House Christmas tree.

Marco Island, FL

I visited Marco Island, FL in early January to attend the CIC President's Institute. The weather was gorgeous, the speeches inspiring and the beach was filled with shells and wildlife. Perfect for a long walk to clear out my holiday head!