Thursday, June 17, 2010

MUSIC on the BLOG


Did you know that you can easily change the music that is on our blog? If you scroll down to the bottom on the page you can select from a variety of songs and/or music. Simply click on the music you'd like to listen to on Music Therapy for You during your visit to the blog.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

JUNE MEETING 2010


At the June Meeting we had a good discussion about the book The Help. We discussed Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny's feelings. We also discussed Constantine's daughter. The majority of the group felt that the author left out some important background information about her father. We thought that maybe Skeeter's father was her father also. It's up to you to decide.
In the picture chocolate pie is being enjoyed by the group. They said that the pie was delicious but maybe also suspicious! Everyone did eat the pie and no one reported anything odd.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

WICKED


Wicked Review by Gloria
We had a great time. Linda, Corinne and I rode the TRE and Dart to Fair Park from Richland Hills. Debbie met us at Fair Park Theatre as she had company to get back for. The play was fabulous. The sets were incredible. So were the costumes. As could be expected, it’s not the entire book that we read (that was quite a tome, wasn’t it?), but the story hangs together quite well, and of course, the ending was much happier than the book. All of the actors were wonderful: the voices were terrific, and the acting funny and extremely well choreographed. And in a sort of quirky way, it’s really primarily about the friendship between 2 women—a great plot for WOW women. I could go on and on, so I’ll stop. But, we’ve really ought to do a special event like this at least once a year. It was so much fun.
Oh, one more thing!: When we switched to Dart, we ended up sitting in front of a lady and her husband (also on their way to see Wicked) and we struck up a conversation. She was in a book group, too (and like Linda, was an Aggie Mom.) We talked books all the way to Fair Park. She recommended a couple of interesting books, and we recommended some to her. It was amazing how many of the same books our two groups had read!

Thursday, June 3, 2010

May Meeting 2010


We had a great May meeting, here’s a short recap:
Our May meeting was at Gloria Hannon’s house. Book: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. It was a small gathering. In attendance were Diane Casto, Angie Crichett, Karen Massey, Linda Miles, Debbie Roll, Barb Thomas, and of course, Gloria Hannon. The book opened up some interesting discussions about education, cultural differences, and definitions of success. We all agreed that defining success in only monetary terms, was a flaw in one of Mr. Gladwell’s premises. We wished more of our teacher members had been present for our education discussions. We also discussed our Christmas meeting plans, and while not completely final, we did definitely decide that we would not have a book for December, but that we would have our ornament exchange, and would provide our book selections for our 2011 reading agenda.