Happy Wednesday!

There's No Place Like Home...

 

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

There's only one original...

I grew up with Calvin & Hobbes comics, and I miss opening the paper and reading them everyday.  Still, when I read this article about how the authors of the blog Pants are Overrated payed homage to C&H by bringing Calvin back as an adult, I was torn.  Yes, it was kind of cool to catch a glimpse of what Calvin and Susie might be like as grown-ups, but it seems wrong in a way, too. 

So while I kind of liked the two strips that Dan and Tom Heyerman came up with, I'm glad that they've decided that there won't be any more "Hobbes and Bacon" strips for a while...



An Aspiration...

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"I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others." ~ Grace Kelly

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This sweet video was made by three of the guys deployed with me here in Iraq for their wives for Mother's Day.  I may be a tad biased, but I think that Chaplain Blatter, Chief Howlett, and SGT Liechty make quite the talented trio...

No More Questions!!

No More Questions! from StoryCorps on Vimeo.

I'm a huge NPR fan, and I love their StoryCorps series.  I download the podcasts on my iPod and listen when I go for a run.  So it was fun to see this new animated shorts series that they created for some favorite StoryCorps interviews.

I remember listening to this story in particular during one of my runs through Daybreak and laughing out loud...I loved the grandmother's feistiness, and I teared up at the end when her son said that he still sometimes talks to her now.

I'd love to do an interview with some of my loved ones...

Less than two months 'til I come home...

photo via Princess Anne County

And in the meantime, I'm:

Reading...

Watching...

"Pandora-ing"...

Looking forward to...

P.S.  What a lovely photo, no?  Have I mentioned that I've always had a little crush on Paul Newman? Beyond the dashing good looks, sense of humor, charm, class, and philanthropy, his love story with Joanne Woodward is swoon-worthy...