No matter how hard I try, posting to this blog is not frequent enough. I am still committed to making it work, however. Thank goodness for the arrival of spring with its budding trees and bushes and daffodils. The dwarf peach in my yard is showing off, especially when viewed against a forsythia bush.
Coincidentally, I am taking another course in online instruction and being reminded of how much effort has to go into a really good online presence.
Technology is wonderful, even in the worst of circumstances. On March 12, while my family and pets were vacationing in an oceanfront hotel in Virginia Beach, MacDuff, my 11-year-old Scottie dog, died suddenly of a heart attack.
I was able to go take care of arrangements for MacDuff by finding a pet crematory on the internet. I then used e-mail to alert family members to his death. That news traveled to my daughter’s family in Los Angeles, my daughter-in-law who was oceanfront in Hawaii (where she and my grandson had to ride out the tsunami alert), and it made its way to my son’s I-phone while he was stranded in an airport in Tokyo because of the earthquake.
This sharing eased the pain of the experience.
On another subject, I am saddened by the passing of Elizabeth Taylor and inspired to watch some of her movies again. Camille Paglia said it well today in a newspaper column when she talking about Taylor showing how women could be strong in "Butterfield 8." Paglia also noted how bad movies are these days,and many of them really are. Thank goodness for treats such as "The King's Speech" and "The Fighter."
