ABSILVER's World

OK.. I am going to weigh in on the winter disaster of Atlanta, and ask your northern weather channel people to stop looking askance at the south in snowstorms just as we in Florida should not laugh at responses to hurricanes up north. I have lived in Atlanta three times although many years ago.  But, I survived a few snow storms and cold weather.  I have also lived in New York, New Jersey and Provincetown and experienced some of the northern variety of ice. It is not ... just that Atlanta and the south is not used to ice storms.  It is not just that people don't know how to drive, or that they lack sensibility for how to drive in snow.  It can't be, because many of those stranded on the roadways and with kids stuck on a bus or in school are not originally from Atlanta and many are from the north.  So, you may feel quite righteous at the moment but many of your kinfolk I bet are part of the problem. Snow in Atlanta, feels colder than what is in the north.  It is more akin

Can you imagine... you are female growing up in Anderson, SC and you dream of going to college.  You are lucky, and you have supportive parents who believe an education is a good thing.  You are the oldest of 8 children...  parents immigrated from Russia and moved to Anderson, SC with your parents looking for a better life and freedom. You reach out to go to Converse College, in Spartanburg and get a college degree.  Imagine, your ambition not satiated, you decide to leave and go further from home and go to New York and Columbia University and get a second degree a Bachelor of Science.  You stay in New York to work, before choosing to get married and return to your hometown. Let's add a few twists to this, you are female, Jewish, parents immigrated from Russia, and oh by the way it is not today you achieve your second degree it is 1929.  This is more amazing because I knew her, she was my grandmother, and I have her diploma from Columbia University. I sit here wi

I sit here on the day that hell appears to be freezing over.  Not really sure how this is happening and nor will most people reading this care that we will complain in the morning cause it will be 48.  Imagine, you haven't tried your heat in about a year and you realize you will have to try it and smell that heated smell once again.  As many of you try and keep warm through ungodly temps here I sit wondering when it is cool enough for me to open windows and then wait for heat tomorrow. But, honestly other than a slight amount of bragging, this is not the point of this blog post.  It is truly more about a concern I have about my patience for entertainment this past year.. and as of yesterday in the new year this concern of mine is that I appear to have little patience for theatre or movies as of late.  ( I am wondering if this is me... or the quality of the shows and so I want someone to comment.) Let's go backwards, as I have written before about a year ago seeing Bill