STARS, THEN AND NOW, OLD AND YOUNG

Last week Charo (right, with Pam Anderson) was on dancing with the stars. My 23 yr old son made a comment on her looks, which prompted me to pull up a few images of her in her heyday in order to show him how "hot" she once was in her youth. WE ALL AGE and grow older, but many of today's stars have been around a long time - they stood that old test of time. But many younger people don't know them from the past, so I decided t
o show you all some photos of stars now, older, and what they looked like in younger years. Many times I've told my daughters how this or that actor was once so "fine", way way way back in my day, so I've included male and female stars here. Since Charo started this, here are a few shots of her in her younger days:






















Gorgeous, wasn't she? And I personally think she still is - she has a GREAT body (speaking as a straight woman here, we still recognize when a woman has a bod like we wish we had).





















SALLY FIELDS












































JOHN SCHNEIDER (sp?)






































SEAN CONNERY

OK THIS is taking much longer to organize than i planned, n more than i have, so i'm just gonna leave em mixed up n put names by them, even tho it'll look junky. my grandkids just got here.





Valerie Bertinelli

















Mackenzi Phillips













Burt Reynolds













Dixie Carter








Mackenzi Phillips









Mickey Rourke












Kirstie Alley















Mackenzie Phillips








Jamie Lee Curtis
















Kevin Costner


Kirstie Alley



















Elvis Presley

Kevin Costner
















Jamie Lee Curtis



Elvis





















Darryll Hannah (above, both pix)











Elvis















Demi Moore














Darryll Hannah (SP?)



Kirstie Alley












Brooke Shields


(to the right-hand, and bottom)



































Dixie Carter Sean Connery










Brooke Shields















Kevin Costner












Burt Reynolds Demi Moore



























(both) Burt Reynolds

A Modicum of Modesty Please

I just picked up a new (for me) book to read, and

the very first paragraph prompted me to blog about it. The title of the book is More Than A Hero, by Hana Ali, daughter of Muhammad Ali (the boxer for those of you who have been off the planet for a few decades). Most people know Ali is a Muslim. Now, I do not dress all covered up like that, not at all; my favorite outfit is jeans n a sexy-yet-not-too-revealing top for going out on weekends. But today's girls drive me insane, all the girls gone wild antics. I could go into a rant about it but I won't, not in this particular blogging episode. But what I am gonna do is copy what Hana wrote, because I thought it very wise, sensitive, and intelligent. For those of you who are non-religious (I myself am anti-organized religion, pro-spirituality and your own private one-on-one relationship with your own concept of God/Creator), just take the mention of God metaphorically (tho Ali did not mean it that way- he was devout when saying this) and think of Nature and her creations:

FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO MORE THAN A HERO, BY HANA ALI

(She explains this happened when she was 9 or 10 years old, on her first visit to her father and his new wife.) ...I was wearing a little white tank top and a short black skirt. I had been raised Orthodox Muslim, so I had never before worn such revealing clothing while in my father's presence. When we finally arrived, the chauffeur escorted my younger sister, Laila, and me up to my father's suite. As usual, he was hiding behind the door waiting to scare us. We exchanged as many hugs and kisses as we could possibly give in one day. My father took a good look at us. Then, he sat me down on his lap and said something that I will never forget. He looked me straight in the eyes and said, "Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them." He looked at me with serious eyes. "Your body is sacred. You're far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too."

REAL DANGER: Watch For Falling Icicles

I only have a moment, and so a quickie - I plan on adding more later but I know me well by now, n I may not get around to it.
Icicles have been falling steadily all day around my house, with a loud crash, and I began to wonder if anyone had been killed by this, thinking surely it must have happened somewhere at sometime. I googled, and the 1st thing I looked at was the following Reuters report. Being Reuters, a reputable news organization (as reputable as Big Media ever is, at least), I decided to go with this one story, for now. But keep in mind that this is just one, and there are many other returns for this search - many other instances of people seriously hurt or killed by falling icicles. After all, they can often be very large, very heavy, and are pointed. Dangerous.
The following article is copied/pasted from http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2632514820080226

Falling icicles kill six

MOSCOW

Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:00am EST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Six people have been killed in three days by icicles falling from buildings in a central Russian region, ITAR-TASS news agency reported Tuesday.

Oddly Enough

Plummeting chunks of ice is an annual hazard for pedestrians in Russia during the spring when the sun finally melts thick layers of ice and snow which build up on roofs over months of freezing temperatures and darkness.

Medical authorities in the region of Samara told ITAR-TASS that five people died in the city of Samara and another person died in the nearby town of Otradny between February 23 and February 25.

(Writing by James Kilner; Editing by Matthew Jones)

forgiveness

just a quick blog: i just heard a very wise thing said, and clever. On Ghost Whisperer no less. I know that not being jealous, forgiving others, not being upset when someone cuts you off in traffic, etc - none of that is meant to benefit the other guy, its for US. Carrying around that negative crap eats us alive, and ruins our day as well as the people we are around in our foul moods, and the other guy goes merrily on, either unaware of you at all (as in traffic) or delighted that they bothered you so badly, that they have that power over you, etc. The ghost on the show put it this way: UNFORGIVENESS is like drinking poison and waiting for the OTHER person to die.