My house is falling apart. I shouldn’t be surprised; it’s almost thirty-five years old. I got the first clue about a year ago when the shower pan in our upstairs bathroom gave out. In the process of hvaing it fixed, we learned that termites had been having a field day up chewing up the bathroom cabinet. We had to put in a [...]
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Cleaning Out Memories
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Social Networking and Me
Posted in Uncategorized on November 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I have been told that in order to keep up with the twenty-first century I must be active on today’s social networking sites. That fact was reinforced by almost every TV program I watch, particularly the news program CNN. I cannot tell you how many times I heard that if I wanted to know more [...]
Fear
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hallowe’en is coming up in a couple of days and it got me thinking, besides wondering which kind of candy I should buy for my trick-or-treaters, about scaring kids and fear. What is so funny about being scared out of your mind, making your hair stand on end and your skin feel like it was [...]
Writers and Authors are Good Guys
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I returned from a ten day trip a few days ago and had a chance to read a couple of books on the long five to six hour flights back and forth between Los Angeles and New York. They were “People of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks which I found interesting mainly because it is based on [...]
Latest Picture on Flickr
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Check it out: http:www.flickr.com/photos/alicerene
Becoming Alice wins Award
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Announcement re Becoming Alice,A Memoir by Alice Rene:
Award-winning Finalist in the Young Adult Non-Fiction category of the National Best Books 2009 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News. http://www.usabooknews.com/2009bestbooksawards.html
Becoming A Writer, Becoming An Author
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was at a buffet lunch at my husband’s medical school class reunion recently, attended by about forty of his classmates and their spouses. I was so impressed by how they all had cared about the well-being of their patients and had not chosen their profession on the basis of its financial rewards. Now mostly past retirement age, many [...]
Marketing Mania
Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My two week vacation is not over yet. I’m writing this from Rochester, New York where I’ve checked into a hotel which has a computer available to me. I’ve just come from a hotel in New York City where my hotel also had computers, but they had a payment requirement. One dollar for five minutes [...]
Two week vacation
Posted in Uncategorized on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hi Everyone,
For those of you who’ve been reading my blog, I’m off to New York for this and that and won’t be posting blogs for a couple of weeks. But stayed tuned after that.
Cheers, Alice
Why We Are the Way We Are
Posted in Uncategorized on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tina was here for a few days last week. Rememger herin Becoming Alice? She was the little girl who came to this country with me. She’s no longer a little girl, of course, but it’s funny how the roles we established way back then seem to have maintained themselves. I’m still someone who is not only [...]