When life gives you lemons...drink mojitos, write on a wall and blow bubbles!

Is it Sunday again...already? Where are the days flying off to? I started the weekend on Friday with my girls from the block. We went to Williamsburg (neither one of them had ever been there. One is a transplant from Seattle, the other came to Brooklyn by way of Harlem) and wiled away the afternoon at a rooftop cafe slurping blue blue point oysters from half shell and washing them down with mojitos. After which we indulged in some "legal graffiti" which we were told was part of the Virgin America Airlines marketing campaign. I've never scrawled on a wall - it was kind of exciting - like stealing lip gloss from the drugstore and getting away with it (I did that once when I was nine years old and the act still haunts me to this day. I was a practicing catholic back then and had to do about 100 Hail Mary's)



Saturday I piled ma-dukes into the car and headed to New Jersey. I have to split my time between two households when I go to this particular part of NJ - because my sister and my sister-friend both live in the same town. So I spent the afternoon doing the suburban thing with my sister (Walmart, nursery, bakery, lunch, Wii....gab,,gab..gab..) and then I headed across town to my sister-friend's house, slipped into my easy pants, mixed up a batch of rum punch, propped my feet up into a chair and we began to talk about the good old days ...the rough patch we're both experiencing at present...and the better days to come.

Oh yeah, I'm always in search of inspiration -- and so I picked up a copy of The Shack. The author kindly asks the reader to help spread the word about the book by telling a friend, blogging about it and buying it as a gift for a friend or a stranger. I guess it worked. I love successful stories like this.



We're all in this together...ALL OF US...and so we have to keep each others chins up by pulling together in faith, family, love, mojitos, graffiti and bubbles!

Bernice L. McFadden