Frivolous Views

Author: Carleen

  • Review: Karin Kallmaker and KG MacGregor have ruined me. (Or, I feel sullied and unusual)

    I like Anne Hathaway.   I think she’s talented.  She’s very good at romantic films – comedy and drama.  So, when she has a new movie release, I try to see it. Okay, so I wait for the DVD – I can’t afford to actually go to a movie.   The latest release for me…

  • If it works for Kelly Clarkson, it can work for me.

    Behold!  My mantra for 2012! Why not, right? Life has pretty much been crap since January 2009 – that’s when it started.  And it hasn’t finished.  But, dammit, I’m still here! Don’t get me wrong…there have been some good things since then as well.   Nothing stellar.  Nothing spectacular.  But there were some good things.…

  • If I were artsy-fartsy, I’d probably have a better blog

    I’ve spent about 3 hours looking through new themes for this web page.  Previewed each one that I thought might be interesting; each that might be “me”. If it was pink, I passed.  If it was all flowery, I passed.  If it looked way too light and airy, I passed.  If it looked too complicated,…

  • It’s actually pretty…until you have to drive in it

    So Chicago got hit with its second snow storm of the season. We were warned. We knew it was coming. The news this morning while getting ready for work and then later while driving to work informed us that all 365 of the salt trucks and plows from IDOT and Streets & Sanitation were already…

  • Confessions of an office supply junkie

    I made a purchase today.  A purchase that pleased me quite a bit. I bought a Rolodex! Okay, so it’s a small Rolodex.  But still, I got rather giddy when I “checked out.”  Sure, I could use the Outlook contact list.  But what happens if my work computer crashes?  (It just might any day now.)…

  • The Recovering Recovering Catholic

    I went back to church when my Grandmother died.  One of the things she always wanted for her grandchildren was for us to go back to church.  She knew that I am a lesbian.  Just like she knew that my cousin is a gay man.  She loved us just as much as the rest of…

  • GCLS – Day 3

    January 11, 2011 – Orlando, FL This was the final full day of the conference. We started early again, gathering together to listen to the sensational KG MacGregor share her keynote speech with us.  What a spectacular speech!  As always, KG was charming, witty, poignant, and inspirational.  This, my friends, is a class woman.  It’s…

  • GCLS – Day 2

    January 10, 2011 – Orlando, FL The day started early.  First up on the agenda was the presentation by the Special Speaker for the conference – Elizabeth Sims. Now, I have to be honest here…until this conference, I’d not heard of Elizabeth Sims.  I know, I know…bad reader. However, after listening to the presentation –…

  • GCLS – Meet-n-Greet & Day 1

    January 8 and January 9, 2011 – Orlando, FL After months of counting down months, weeks, days, hours and minutes, the annual GCLS conference was finally upon us. Mom and I arrived in Orlando on Wednesday afternoon.  We had an easy check in…that’s always nice.  The suite we have for this leg of our trip…

  • Closer and closer

    Well, today was about driving. We left Indiana at about 5am and started heading southeast.  There were a couple of stops here and there.  Mom wanted to stop to get some music that “will keep us awake.”  Her choice:  The Black Eyed Peas.  🙂 So, we drove through Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Macon.  (Clearly, there…