"Far away places, with strange sounding names, that I read in a book on theshelf

hi celticeagle I wish I could be two people sometimes so I could read again and so I could also mylot to my hearts content. I still have 'a lot in storage. I have also done a lot of researching ireland on the net and my son also had a lot of sites he had copied on his computer and had me wide eyed with amazement at some of the wonderful places we watched together.Ihave never been to the emerald isle but always wanted to go. My four great grandparents Clark were born and raised an stayed in Ireland but their son migrated with his wife to Kentucky in the US and raised seven children one of whom was my great grandfather James Clark who sired my grandfather ThomasC clark who was chaplin in the White HOUse during the civil war

hi Celticeagle You know if I ever got a large chunk of money I would really take a trip to Ireland. I would go to Derry and see if I could learn more about Thomas Clark and his Father Andrew Clark, strangely those two names were passed on down to my gr unkle and my grandfather . the thomas Clark that was mygr gr grandfather married a Kirkpatrick.

Oh me too! That is interesting. Thanks for sharing.

again numero uno. getting this down pat,huh?

hi bunnybon wow second time congrats.I made first the other day and seldom get that honor.lol some times comic books will lead to other reading interests too as my son got into books on electronic and computers and of course he is now but sadly out of work, a computer programmer. I always read so much but now i am on my computer again the pile of books I was going to read are still sitting there begging to be read. I am so limited here as I was al ways a night person used to staying up late at my computer then going to bed and reading to say two am. now I have to give up by 11 as I share the room with a roommate who is not much of a reader and likes to go to bed by eleven o'clock. I still love a good mystery but again I m so mylot addicted its terrible.

You could try finding out if you can listen to books in the audio format, not quite the same as reading, but you can listen to books when you are doing other things the roomie is lucky, she can listen to an audio book AND think!

hi elicbxn thats a good idea. right now I often listen to Mozart violin sonatas as I often mylot with this, and I can think about what I am doig to the background of soothing and sometimes astonishingly modern music. no wonder his contemporaries thought his work odd, some of it sounds like 2010 music so that must have scared them. he he

ElicBxn hi oh me too I love to read but i am so stuck on mylot lately' that I have books sitting there waiting to be read. I started one and still have not finished it,too busy mylotting. sad, wish i was two people at times,one to work on the computer the other to read.Guess I need to find a happy medium.

hi Kashmeresmycat oh I am a stephen King nut and I have read so many of his books. I also have read a lot of novels about Victorian times . I also love to read real books and have a pile beside my bed waiting for me to stop mylotting and read them. lol.

hi ellie I was the same way as a child and my parents always encourage me so now I am on my computer all day and by eleven o'clock have to go to bed as I have a roomie who does not like staying up like I used to til 2 a m.I read all sorts of books, and was just thinking of a really old old book Beverly of Graustark, and I found that you can now download that on your computer as an e-book. fascinating and I think I will do that. those are older than I am probably 90 years old but you can still get the book. I always read fast too, faster as a child than I do now however. ''

hi fwidman oh if I was not so addicted to mylot and I also love mysteries and real whodunits too. I do try to read but I run out of time now days all because I am hooked on mylot so much. Mary Higgins Clark is one of my favorite murder authors and I am a nut for Stephen King too.

hi gabs I love my books too and read myself to sleep at night after mylotting that is. right now I am a bit spooked.Kathy my roommate insisted she had to go to the Er last night at ten so they got an ambulance and she has yet to come back so she either has been admitted to the hospital or her sister took her home with her. seems I am always the last one to know when she does something like this. She is a year or two my junior but after being here awhile I am become close with her. anyway I guess I will find ou t one way or the other. she did not look really sick but who knows. I slept like a log last night. she has been a bit odd lately ,getting up and going downstairs at two or four in the morning for a glass of ice thus waking me up each time. she sleeps all day and then wonders why she cannot sleep at night. I care for her bu t she can drive me nuts at times. If only she would just let me sleep at night without waking me so much I would not mind it.well to each her own. love hugs from hatley .

It's an interesting history, tells it more from the side of the downtrodden and less from the side of the rich and powerful...

hi cynthiann oh yes I do love to cuddle down with a good book and read'until I fall asleep knowing I can catch up the next day. My 'computer had sort of cut into my reading time which is a shame'as i have books waiting for me to finish reading them. then too I have had to go to bed earlier as I have a roommate who does not have the same need to stay up until 2 am reading and being on the computer.lol

hi Kathy that is sad having to close the bookstore but so many are now going to ebooks,but to me I have to have a real book. I grew up in Little House on The Prairie country. on a farm in South Dakota so I could really relate to them. I always have been a book warm as far back as I can remember as I think my parent's love of reading made me follow after them.

Even though I enjoyed running the bookstore, it was a stressful time for me. Daddy helped me get started in business and then he passed away during that time. I'm sure you know how rough it is losing a family member but imagine trying to run a business and dealing with it at the same time, especially if this was the person who helped you get started in business. He had told me that if the business didn't make a profit, we would have to close it up. When daddy passed away, my brother took over the shopping center where the bookstore was and he was over me for several months. My brother-in-law took over about a month before we went out of business. It was really sad for me but I learned a lot during that time. I've been to South Dakota but I've never been to Little House On The Prairie country. I would love to see that. I would especially like to see Walnut Grove, Minnesota. I grew up on a farm, too. We had a farm here for many years but you wouldn't know it to look at it now. I have so many houses coming up around me thanks to some family members. We originally had 160 acres out here but the property was divided up between the children when daddy passed away. Some of my siblings decided to sell their property, though. We had cattle, horses, dogs, cats, and when I was a baby, we had pigs and sheep out here. I really do miss it. I'm just thankful that I have enough property to keep one horse on.

hi quita88 It saddens me too to hear a lot of teachers now days say that many students are not up to grade level in reading while their math skills and science are very good. I cannot understand why people or kids for that matter cannot enjoy good books and'stil be computer literate. my son was always an avid reader and yet he was also a computer nerd so those two things can go together with] a bit of making room for both.

I am not sure but I do not think they teach phonics anymore or do they?? I had phonics in school and learned how to spell which also increased my reading. I can see where the computer and the reading can go together if they time each separately. Truth is , I have to time ME too LOL I have to get off this brain box and get other stuff done ever so often. I am cutting out pictures of butterflies and some birds, owls this time too :) for my seven year old grandson. He caught some grasshoppers yesterday at a ball game and put them in a jar and his parents would not let him take them home. I have them in my living room and will take them to him on the game day..........the parents told him they were dirty and would not let him take his treasures home. I know grasshoppers can be dirty... but hands can be washed. I took him some pictures I cut out of butterflies a few days ago and he asked me for more. I have left the printing on the pages and pictures so he can read about he butterflies. I don't think the parents understand this boy's need for the learning that goes with the beauty of a butterfly. I do believe they think it's sissy for a boy to want to look at a butterfly. I don't. I think he is showing some real promise in the learning direction and if I am allowed I will give him any books or pictures he needs to learn. I also want to take him to a butterfly pavilion so he can witness first hand the butterfly population. I am dearly hoping I can make some serious strides in his learning regardless of what the subject.

hi dorannmwin I am the same way, I started as a little girl and' still read every chance I get in spite of getting stuckhere on mylot a lot; but I still find some time for reading and we have a lot of paperbacks in our library downstairs that I h ave 'not read yet, some I do not care for but plenty of ones that I do like.

hi bounce I read the Nancy Drew books as a kid and some of the Hardy boys books too. yes reading is more expanding ones imagination than the games to me. Myson learned to read early and has always kept up the habit.

hi yes when I open a fiction book and start I am gone into a different world and can travel without worrying about the cost, and pick the places and worlds that I want to go to. It relaxes me and drives away the outside stresses of life. I have no funds with which to visits other countries but many books will take me there with a penny spent.

Haha,same here or maybe I just need say "You take my words".

hi yes indeed thats the term. lol lol

hi zandi I always did that too usually something in paperback that as you said caught my eye and maybe a new one by a favorite author;it really helps on a long trip or a long flight. here I am on the computer so much my reading is piled up waiting for me to come read again.

hi dragon that is so sad is it not as our imagination will dry up if we do not use it. I always feel sad when young people sat they] are not into reading as its too slow. my gosh does everything in our] modern world have to speed by in a flash, why that's the beauty of reading as you can relax, slow down , and let your imagination take you to another place or even another time. they miss the fun.

hi paula I think when we parents read our children just pick it up naturally and usually we readers will read to our children and also get them books to read too. I like good old hard cover books you can hold and just immerse yourself in.My love has stayed with me but sadly since I got my computer out of storage I get hooked here and run out of time for other things.