Scrapburbia

I don't feel like scrapbooking today...

I started a book while I was with my sister in the hospital.

The Billionaire's Vinegar 

I grabbed it in paperback at Barnes & Noble a few months ago. It begins with a little history about Thomas Jefferson's time in France in the late 1700's. He's "on business" for the United States and gaining an education on French Wines while he's at it. Fast forward 200 years and several old bottles of wine are found behind hidden walls in a French flat with the initials Th.J. engraved into them, along with other clues that lead several people to believe (or choose to believe) that they once belonged to Thomas Jefferson. I'm only a third off the way through, and while I know nothing about wine(well I know a little bit now)... I am interested and intrigued my the mystery. I am such a sucker for a true story.

I do this... I switch gears (from scrapbooking to reading and back again) without notice, and now I have a layout halfway finished on the table and a book to finish... what to do?

Well, I think I'll put on my Pj's crawl in bed, finish the book and resume the scrapbook page this weekend. 

Oh, and I do have a "Same, Only Different." for you... but I still need to photograph the second layout. Want a sneak peek?

I'm excited to share the second "same" layout, and posting this one will shame me into getting the camera out and snapping shots of the other layouts that I want to share!

Double Take by Kevin Connolly

I picked up this book at Barnes & Noble a couple months ago and then couldn't put it down...

It's about a young man that was born without legs. The book doesn't really go into the science of why and how that happened. Probably because it's a memoir... and the how and why of being born without legs doesn't has far less meaning than the how and why people have certain perceptions of him because of it.

I'll want my kids to read it for sure. It's a great perspective on how people that look physically different, really don't feel that different, or maybe even forget that they are different until they see people staring at them.

Good, good read. Well worth the space on my bookshelf... I'll read it again for sure.

Have you read anything that gives you a new perspective that changed your behavior or at least your attitude?