Life Lessons for Kids

A review about this book in this week's Time Magazine caught my eye. The Essential 55: An award-winning educator's rules for discovering the successful student in every child, is based on the concept of teaching behavioral lessons first, to lay the foundation for academic success. Rules like: make eye contact when in conversation, and say thank you within three seconds of receiving something, intrigued me. I'm going to have my kids read this book.

Finding Rosie

I read a snippet in the paper this morning about Rosie O'Donnell suing some tabloid because they claimed she was breaking up with her partner, Kelli Carpenter. The article also noted that Kelli Carpenter recently had her name changed to Kelli O'Donnell.

I was and am a huge fan of Rosie, but Kelli changing her name seemed a bit odd to me since I had also read somewhere in the past that sometimes it was a struggle for her to maintain her own identity as the partner of such a high profile person. But I digress...

Reading this simply made me think of Rosie, and reflect on how she has absolutely and totally removed herself from (or has fallen from) the spotlight since she left her show. Thus, my thoughts of her reminded me of her interesting yet bizarre book, Find Me. How ironic the title is right now, as Rosie is nowhere to be found.

I won't give away the premise of the book, but I will say that my emotions once I reached the end of the book are hard to describe -- I was intrigued, yet stunned that Rosie was so open and yet so gullible about the strange relationship that she became entwined in.

As a fan, I hope that Rosie has found happiness.