Glens Falls (NY) Online Book Discussion Group discussion

Welcome to our most recent new members who joined between 1/25/09 & 3/05/09:

1. Alice
2. UpstateNYgal
3. Jenni
4. Katie
5. Jude
6. Maureen
7. Wendy
8. Ngcasey
9. Cindy
10. Mike
11. Sara
12. June
13. Karen
14. Perpendicularandi
15. S.i.r.
16. John
17. Todd
18. Emanuela
19. Margaret

I was happy to see you join our group.
Please join our conversations when you have time.

Happy reading,
Joy

Dear newcomers and old friends,
My memoir about my mother, THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, will be published by Knopf on April 28th. I am counting the days. In the meantime, I hope you'll read an excerpt on my website and tell me what you think...as the ice thaws on Paradox Lake.
Regards, Nancy at www.nancybachrach.com

Hi Nancy,
Congratulations on getting published!
I've bookmarked your website and look forward to reading the excerpt.

Is the ice really melting? That's the best news I've heard all day! LOL The snow on our roof is rapidly disappearing. Another good sign. :)

PS-The Amazon.com webpage for Nancy's book is at: ====>
http://www.amazon.com/Center-Universe...

Goodreads Cover link: ====>

The Center of the Universe A Memoir

ABOUT NANCY BACHRACH: ====>
Nancy Bachrach

Hi Joy,

I truly enjoy reading and responding to all of my groups and thank you for this one. But I have decided that I spend TOO much time on this computer and have been neglecting things, such as my husband,work around the house, etc. So I am going to sign off on all of the social groups, so that I can get everything back into their rightful place and place my church and my husband in their right priority. It's been fun.

KJ Jacobs
author of "Looking Up When Your Circumstances Have You Down"
www.authortree.com/miracles

Good luck, KJ. I understand completely. It's hard to strike a balance when we live busy lives.

I've been on and off the online message boards since 1995. When I quit the message boards I did crossword puzzles instead. Not the same. LOL

The interactive Internet has ushered in a new age none of us are prepared to deal with. It's marvelous and, at the same time, it's troublesome. I'll leave it to the writers to come up with metaphors. Perhaps it's too much of a good thing.

I wrote a poem back in 1976 during our country's bicentennial year. It went like this:
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A POEM WRITTEN BY JOY FOR THE 1976 BICENTENNIAL:
(for the AAUW Dinner Program booklet of the same year)

REFLECTION
Bicentennial -- a time to look back,
Bicentennial -- a time to look forward,
And always as we look, one constant theme emerges: Change.
Change, constant, never-ending change.
It has always been with us:
The challenge of change,
a gentle zephyr
grown into a gallant gale.
Can we cope with it?
ever-quickening,
ever-unsettling.
The challenge of change
now felt by all women everywhere,
for who can escape the tempests of time?
Must we change? Should we change?

No matter.
Whatever the alterations of time,
We must each be allowed to be different.
For though we change,
we must each change
in our own way,
Accepting the challenge on our own terms.
Bicentennial,
a time for each of us
to look back,
to look forward.

-Joy H. - 1976
Putnam County Branch, NY
American Association of University Women
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KJ, I'm sure your decision is right for you. We each have to weigh the pros and cons and also... get this all-consuming Internet under control... so that we control IT and it doesn't control US.

Good luck, KJ.
Joy

Please see the following topic I started about Nancy's book:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Welcome all! I've been busy reading some checked-out library books (with a 14-day limit) for my book discussion group, but it's nice to check in. It's going to be a warm day today -- could spring be just around the corner? Hope so!

Audrey wrote: "Welcome all! I've been busy reading some checked-out library books (with a 14-day limit) for my book discussion group, but it's nice to check in. It's going to be a warm day today -- could spring be just around the corner? Hope so!

I hope so too, Audrey!
Nice to see you dropping by.
Enjoy those books.