It was an open game with a lot of defending to do for both sides. And, yes, Abby Erceg did walk her new team out as captain on debut. RL were away to Houston Dash, a playoff team in 2022 and therefore a good test for the new-look Louisville first up. Every season is a fresh start but this was one more than most. Plus she gets out of a strange situation in North Carolina where Erceg herself had bemoaned the constant lopsided trades. The offseason trade caught her by surprise but the chance to help take a young franchise like Racing Louisville over the hurdle and potentially into playoff contention is a very exciting one at this stage of Erceg’s career. It’s an experience that Abby Erceg had been through many times already as she entered her ninth season in the NWSL yet this one was different as for the first time since 2016 it wasn’t the North Carolina Courage that she was lining up for. Fans of both teams are hopeful with the fresh start. Nothing quite like the sounds of a busy stadium on the opening day of the season. Abby Erceg – Racing Louisville (American National Women’s Soccer League)
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Finally, a little blue engine comes along and helps. Three train engines decide to not help, each for their own reasons. What makes them have these opinions, and are they always entitled to them? In The Little Engine That Could, a train carrying toys and treats for good boys and girls breaks down. Have you ever heard the phrase “When in Rome, do as the Romans do?” Has anyone ever said that what was right for you wasn’t right for them? We live in a world where people have a wide multitude of opinions, political, social, and moral. Read aloud video by Dan Santat (the illustrator!) Guidelines for Philosophical Discussion “I think I can, I think I can,” says the Little Blue Engine as it starts up the mountain, a seemingly impossible task. Every train engine, big and small, passes it by until the littlest engine agrees to help. Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary This classic story explores such diverse topics as relativism and perseverance, among others.Ī train breaks down, which might cause the toys it is carrying to not get over the mountain in time for the boys and girls. Later, I checked out the audiobook which was a different experience just listening to the residents of the cemetery reciting their short poetic story about their time here in Spoon River. Later that day, I was in the Habitat for Humanity Restore and there was the book! I purchased it for 50 cents and I “Spent the Weekend with a Book.” But the program was on Saturday and the library was closed until Monday. Danville Public Library has the book and the audiobook. Excellent program! When I tried to figure out how long it has been since I had read the book (in high school?), I decided I needed to read it again. In October, I attended (via Zoom) the DPL program “Spoon River Anthology” which was performed by Paddy and Jon Lynn. This highly successful journal, which has continued throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, was a valuable vehicle through which Burke was able to reach the British and American public with his views on political and cultural events. Burke wrote and edited the Annual Register from its first appearance in May 1759 until at least 1765–66, after which he retained supervisory control over it for about thirty years. In 1758 Burke contracted with the publisher Robert Dodsley to “write, collect, and compile” an Annual Register, reviewing the political and cultural events of Europe during the previous year. After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, he went to London to study law but soon became active in literature and politics. Edmund Burke was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1729 and died in 1797 at his home in Beaconsfield, England, where he is buried. Alex and Brittany from the first book are part of the story in the second books as well, but this is not a typical sequel, it’s more of a companion novel. There he meets Kiara, the daughter of his professor and a type of girl he normally wouldn’t fall for. In Rules of Attraction it’s the younger brother, Carlos, gets into problem with a drug lord and has to leave Mexico to go and live with Alex. In Perfect Chemistry the eldest Fuentes brother, Alex, meets uptown, perfect Brittany, only to find out that she’s a real person behind the facade. Both books are kind of modern, urban Romeo of Juliet stories both brothers get into trouble and fall for a girl from different sides of the track. The story lines of both books are similar, but still unique for each book. What I love about the Perfect Chemistry books - besides that they are truly adorable, addictive, sweet and quirky and with characters that steels your heart - is that you get to know all of the Fuentes brothers. I imagine the two writers, Djuna Barnes and Solita Solano, discussing their work while sipping coffee, sharing ideas and inspiration. Only instead of incognito cocktails at Chateau Marmont, I picture them chatting over coffee at an outdoor café, an image I have surely taken from one of my favorite author photographs, and a candidate for a literary tabloid circa 1922. Just like some people watch TMZ and read the tabloids, hoping to catch a glimpse of their favorite actors canoodling in real life, I like to think that my favorite authors are doing the same. Ann Patchett is BFF with Elizabeth Gilbert. Before delving into the text, here are five things you might like to know about the book and its author, who was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2012.ġ. This September, the Literary Traveler Book Club will be discussing Ann Patchett’s 2011 novel, State of Wonder. Therefore, conservatives can predict liberals’ answers to specific questions quite accurately, but liberals do not understand conservatives–with consequences for elections and public debates. Within the USA, conservatives care about all six and realize that liberals are only concerned about the first three but liberals fail to grasp conservatives’ concerns for loyalty, authority, and purity. They argue that individuals and cultures differ in how they define and value these six areas, which they call “Foundations.” For instance, secular Westerners are unusual in giving very heavy weight to the first three. Jonathan Haidt and colleagues propose that human beings have six different areas of moral concern: care, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority, and purity. Evident in the first movie was Perry's flair for physical humor, which he also brings to the sequel. The two did not really know each other before they met on the set of the first film, and they did not anticipate how well their comedic styles would compliment and further each other's.Įach has a genuine mutual respect for the comedic aptitude of the other. "We've got good chemistry between us, and I say that - and I'm as straight as they come - but I do have good chemistry with Mr. "Bruce and I just got lucky," Perry said. Fortunately they are friends both on and off the set. The success of the first movie relied on the relationship between Oz and Jimmy, and thus Perry and Willis. Willis and Perry began to think about where the story of Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Willis) and Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (Perry) would go after the movie ended. The idea began among the actors at a press junket for the first film. The two actors are reuniting after the success of "The Whole Nine Yards" in 2000. "There were very few rules about what these characters could do, and do to each other, and we just kind of went a little cuckoo." "We tried as hard as we could to just be goofy," Willis said in a phone interview. I feel like that’s really important to remember.Ī group of girls at a party want very much to get closer to the boys. How do you find someone when they are able to change their appearance at will? I like that this one really drives home that the things we see as monstrous are not inherently evil. What a great start to the anthology this was! It’s a strong tale of body horror, and a girl who finds herself covered in a very strange, patterned rash.Ĭonjoined twins are medically separated and go on to lead drastically different lives. The Stories: Portrait of a Girl in Red & Yellow – Joanna Roye But it’s not often they get to slay them – or even better, that they get to be them. See, every woman in every story encounters a monster at some point, it seems. The anthology opens with editor Sara Tantlinger (I’ve reviewed her work before – see Cradleland of Parasites, To Be Devoured, and my giveaway of Cradleland – which is running for a few more days) explaining how this collection came to be. A post shared by Angie – Stranger Sights My Thoughts: This is the story of how Judy was born as a "replacement child" for Donna, and how she grew up and later made her own family. Judy wasn't yet born at the time, and her mother and Linda escaped from the wreckage, although not unscathed Donna was not as lucky. Judy Mandel never knew her 7-year-old sister, Donna, because Donna died when a flight bound for Newark airport crashed into the house that her other sister, Linda, lived in with her mother and father. This story is perhaps one of the saddest books I've read lately, and the scary part is, it's nonfiction: a memoir. This is the story of my family's trials and triumphs as a result of a tipping of fate, and my own struggle to live up to the role burned into my psyche from the time my mother first dreamed me up as her salvation. My place in the family was cauterized by the flames. I was conceived as the salve on the burns, to fill the abandoned chair at the gray Formica table. My other sister, Linda, was burned nearly to death. |