Teaser Tuesdays

Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given! Please avoid spoilers!

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Jack Gance by Ward Just

page 24: Of course my father's crime was conspicuous.

page 53: Memory after memory, and I lisened to all of them, hypnotized; sometimes.

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Ward Just is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the National book Award finalist Echo House and An Unfinished Season, winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Award. In a career that began as a war correspondent for Newsweek and the Washington Post, Just has lived and written in half a dozen countries, including Britain, France, and Vietnam. His characters often lead public lives as politicians, civil servants, soldiers, artists, and writers. It is the tension between public duty and private conscience that animates much of his fiction, including Forgetfulness. Just and his wife, Sarah Catchpole, divide their time between Martha’s Vineyard and Paris. [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt website]

An Anytime Snack

EASY MINI QUICHES

8 strips bacon

1 onion, chopped

1 cup milk

3/4 cup buttermilk baking mix

3 eggs, beaten

1/4 cup butter, melted

2 cups Cheddar cheese, grated

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a large skillet, fry the bacon and add the onion. Cook until bacon is crisp and onion is soft. Drain fat. Crumble bacon and set aside.

In a blender, combine milk, baking mix, eggs and butter. Mix the onion, bacon, cheese and egg mixture toether and spoon into greased mini muffin cups. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes, or until tops are lightly browned. Allow quiches to cool in the pan before carefully removing.

Makes 24 mini quiches.

I used Super Mini muffin pans and baked almost 48. Also, in my oven, the baking time was about 20-25 minutes. Soooo good!

Dolores - A Servant's Heart

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http://www.alz.org/index.asp

http://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers

http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/

Places I love - and places I miss

The Broadmoor

The Golden Bee features an authentic 19th century English pub that was transported to the United States from London and is stunning.

Frommer's Review
An opulent 19th-century English pub was disassembled, shipped from Great Britain, and reassembled piece by piece to create this delightful drinking establishment. You can have imported English ale by the yard or half-yard while enjoying steak-and-potato pie, Devonshire cheddar-cheese soup, sandwiches, or other British specialties. Evenings bring a ragtime pianist to enliven the atmosphere; interested guests are given songbooks for singalongs.

There are some places and people and things and sounds and smells and feelings - that evoke special memories. I loved visiting the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs and the Golden Bee (and Sing Along). I miss the Broadmoor and the Golden Bee. Such happy and memorable times.

We were not special enough to have our own Beer Mug at the Golden Bee but we were friends with such Special People and were entranced with these 'old timers' stories of the Broadmoor and the Golden Bee and the history of Colorado Springs.

One evening during the Sing Along, we were fortunate to hear an opera singer who was performing in a production in Colorado Springs. I TELL YOU - she made us ALL sound good. There were so many happy times in this place and just working with this Silly Blog and posting the pictures accompanied with the memories brings a smile to my face.

I recall that on one visit to the Broadmoor, my Golfing Hubby purchased a ski cap in order to continue golfing (the snow had been shoveled off the golf course). Now THIS is a golfer.

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In its sixty year history, the Broadmoor Skating Club has had eight members medal at the Olympics. Three of them won gold. The Skating Club is the home club of 200 national medalists. "We're the spot with the most history. Just go into our rink," says Broadmoor Skating Club President, Dr. Lester Cramer, "and see all the flags of our champions. There is no other place like it!"

Peggy Fleming, Janet Champion, Dorothy Hamil and other great figure skaters trained at the Broadmoor and anyone (anyone!) could watch them skate. Ah - those were the days.

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The Denver Public Library has a great historical photography collection which includes old photographs of The Broadmoor and the Broadmoor Casino. That is another place I love . . . and miss - the Denver Public Library.

The Gruene Onion

On Friday and Saturday evenings, the Gruene Onion Grill hosts instrumental and vocal groups; I understand that sometimes there is some great jazz! Today was lunch (Reuben sandwich and Oriental Salad). A nice stop on the way back to Seguin.

http://www.grueneoniongrill.com/

She's Fifty!

Reporting from Shanghai and Los Angeles -- Barbie turns 50 this month, and to shake off a midlife crisis she's getting tattooed and opening the doors to her first megastore in China.

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“During the 1950s and before, there was this dominant prevailing idea that women should be homemakers and mothers,” said Miriam Forman-Brunell, author of “Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood.” “Barbie challenged the postwar ideal about motherhood and sent the message that it was also OK to be a working woman.”