Below are the most recent 5 friends' journal entries.

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
aubreyrhea	3:47p	Conversational Style Originally published at my real blog. Please leave any comments there. I’ve bought a bunch of books for all the airplane riding I’ll be doing soon. I couldn’t wait to dive into the best-looking one, “Conversational Style” by Deborah Tannen. She spends the entire book analyzing a two-hour Thanksgiving Dinner conversation between people with different cultural backgrounds and personalities to bring insight to the way people relate. I think most people would rather be having the conversation than reading about it. But me, I had the pencil out and started underlining by page 4. I find it fascinating why I gravitate towards certain kinds of people and certain situations, which make me “flower” in ways that are remarkably rare. It feels like a miracle when it happens. But maybe it isn’t such a magical mystery as it seems. If I understand it better, maybe I can figure out how to help it happen more often. ( Read the rest of this entry » )
Friday, July 11th, 2008
aubreyrhea	10:52a	Yet again Originally published at my real blog. Please leave any comments there. I’ve been heavy-handed with the quotes lately, but I just can’t help it. I keep running into good ones that won’t let me leave them alone. I can’t believe I haven’t posted this one here before. This is the thing that made me want to see Garden State. “You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone. You’ll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it’s just gone. And you can never get it back. It’s like you get homesick for a place that doesn’t exist. I mean it’s like this rite of passage, you know. You won’t have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it’s like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that’s all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.” This, and the song “A Place Called Home” by Kim Ritchey. They understand. ( Read the rest of this entry » )
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
aubreyrhea	7:34p	links for 2008-07-10 Originally published at my real blog. Please leave any comments there. Scientific American: Who’s happy? You are There Denmark goes, bein’ all awesome again… :) (tags: international) Minority Report: The burden of parenthood “We live in a society that ostensibly honors families but won’t provide any social support to back up those values.” Article makes me want to scream. (tags: women)
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
aubreyrhea	7:33p	links for 2008-07-09 Originally published at my real blog. Please leave any comments there. Crystal Skulls Deemed Fakes So the newest Indiana Jones movie is based on a real Aztec legend. But the crystal skulls proudly on display in Paris, London and D.C. museums? … Not so real. (tags: movies science) The Space Between: Bon Anniversaire Oh BOY does this ring true. It’s about the non-stop voices that begin to ring in women’s heads, louder and louder the closer we get to the big 3-0. (I don’t know what happens after that). (tags: women)
Monday, July 7th, 2008
aubreyrhea	8:10p	Grapes of Youth Originally published at my real blog. Please leave any comments there. Well, there’s been a lot of down time after Paris, but that is soon to change. 2 weeks from now I start an avalanche of traveling. First I’m off to San Jose to see my sisters. We will go bridesmaid dress shopping and who knows what else. Then I’m off to Long Beach vicinity for my cousin’s wedding. Then, I’m going to Leipzig, Germany! It was either that or Seattle which was not an easy choice. But in the end international + place I’ve never been before won out. I just think there will be better stories :). So that’s what I have to look forward to in the near future. What about the rest of us? Well, it appears reservatrol is back in the news. This is the stuff that you may have heard makes “drinking red wine good for you.” Before, what I understood is that it helps prevent cardiovascular disease. Which didn’t elicit more than a passing interest. But NOW I hear that in addition to that, in large doses, it’s a fountain of youth. ( Read the rest of this entry » )