Goodbye, April

So, … April.

Dang.

What a terrible month.

April was like some terrible houseguest, showing up all gloomy, staying much too long. She drained our bank accounts, broke our computer, blew up one engine of one car, which led to a craziness of driving schedules for five people so we could share cars and drive everyone where they needed to go. She brought despair over colleges, panic over college costs, worry about the future college careers of our next two kids. She crashed our hard drive, broke our garbage disposal, and then FINALLY – in a sweep of relief one weekend – left.

{Deep breath.}

May is better.

She’s a better houseguest. She’s quiet, polite and letting us get our lives back together.

May can stay for awhile.

(… at least for another 2-1/2 weeks.)

Recent Iconic News Photos — Worth a Thousand Words

Photos were an interesting part of the news recently. I love the picture of the fuzzy pink worm caught in the clenched fist of the littlest bridesmaid in Kate and William’s official wedding photo. I loved the incredibly moving picture of the firemen watching the news of bin Laden’s demise on the big screen in Times Square. And everyone has certainly, by now, seen the powerful picture of The Situation Room during the raid on bin Laden’s compound.

But that last one gets more intriguing. An article by Helen A.S. Popkin yesterday outlines several interesting things about the Situation Room photo, from how many times it was Photoshopped for humor (love the one of everyone wearing Beatrice hats and the one of “the Situation” of Jersey fame in The Situation Room — they’re both in the article) to the fact that a Hasidic paper completely Photoshopped Hilary Clinton out because the paper never features images of women in the newspaper. (The paper eventually issued an apology, but only to the White House because they’d changed the photo  — not to women or Hilary Clinton or society as a whole because they managed to edit out a woman who has earned every right to her position.) 

Anyway, “The Situation Room” photo — like the fireman photo and the official wedding photo — are among those iconic images that sum up a week to be remembered.

Worth a thousand words. …

Happy Friday! … And What Should We Talk About First?

Ooops. I took a bit of a break there, didn’t I? Sorry to disappear like that. In my next post, I’ll explain what’s been consuming me.

But gosh, there’s so much to talk about! There’s:

  • Tornadoes in the South
  • Kate and William’s wedding
  • Obama’s birth certificate
  • Osama’s downfall
  • So much other news!

What’s been consuming you most these days? What should we talk about first?!?!

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