My Current Interest

                     With all the business makeover shows I watch, I am starting to wonder if I want to go anywhere.   It seems as though no one can run a business.   I know this is not true, but it sure feels that way with so many shows taking over businesses and redoing them.   After watching many shows involving salons, restaurants, and bars, I have moved onto hotels with the show Hotel Impossible .   The newest season started the other night.   I was very excited when I started seeing the commercials advertising new episodes.   It is a show I enjoy watching, even if some of the places scare me a bit.                       Anthony Melchiorri is the host of Hotel Impossible .   An hotelier, Anthony goes into struggling hotels and figures out how the owners can improve their business.   From what I have observed, one of the biggest reasons for lack of success is cleanliness.   Some of these places are so incredibly dirty.   It can really make me squirm at times when I see what An

              Backup singers are often overlooked, if they are thought of at all.   This probably sounds like a terrible thing to say, but it is the truth.   When people go to concerts or listen to albums, how often do they talk about the background vocals?   Quite possibly never.   This is a shame since sometimes the backup singers are better than the lead artists.   Which is why it should not come as a surprise that some backup singers try to move forward and become the lead.   I know at least one has been a contestant on American Idol and I believe there was another on The Voice .   It has been quite awhile since I have watched either show so there may have been far more than one on each.   In any case, it is not easy to move from backup to lead.   This is just one of the things discussed in the documentary 20 Feet from Stardom .                            Looking into the life of backup singers, 20 Feet from Stardom takes viewers through the highs and lows of what appears to

                  Quite awhile ago I wrote about Murder with Peacocks , the first book in The Meg Langslow Mystery Series .   While I enjoyed the book, I will admit I was not sure if I wanted to continue with the ones following.   Some of the characters drove me absolutely crazy and I did not know if I would be able to put up with them.   However, I decided to give the second one a try.   Then the third, and the fourth…I’m sure you can see where this is going.   I have read every book in the entire series up to the most recent one which I am halfway through.   The books do not take me long to read and when I finish one I eagerly await for the next to be released.   Periodically I check the author’s website to see when I can expect the next installment to be published.   Some of the characters still bother me, but I like everything else so much that for the most part I am able to overlook those aspects.   Every time I have one of these books in my hand, all I want to do is read.   In f

                  Little Free Libraries are popping up all over my city.   I am always excited when I see a new little house filled with books on someone’s lawn.   Each library is different and one never knows what books will be in it.   As people take and leave books, what is inside changes all the time.   This is why I was surprised my mom found Nora Roberts’ The Witness in one of the libraries.   As Nora Roberts is a very popular author and The Witness is a fairly new book, I did not think this book would stay anywhere for very long.   Maybe it did not.   I do not know how long it was in the library before my mom picked it up.   She had read the book before and really liked it.   As she knew I was struggling to find a book to read, she thought I might want to give it a try.   I did not stay with the book long.   Not because I did not like it, but because I did not want to stop reading.   It took me only two or three days to read the entire thing.