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Oct 3rd 2007Karen Rose
Karen RoseWhen Goddesses Fall To Earth

jackandlucy.jpgThis weekend I had the pleasure of sharing one of my favorite movies with my daughters - WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING.  I’d seen the movie perhaps five times before, maybe more, but each and every time I cry (er, sob) when Lucy tells Jack, “I don’t have anyone.”  It’s such a sweet movie, with such an incredible ensemble of secondary characters - Elsie with her heart condition and Saul, who’s a coward and doesn’t tell the family, and Midge and Ox, Jack’s parents.  I fell in love with them, right along with Lucy.

My daughters loved the movie!  I’d so hoped they would.  It was such a pleasure to share with them something that I’d enjoyed so much.

It’s always a huge compliment when a reader tells me, “I’ve told all my friends about your books, and now they read you, too.”  There’s something powerful in a personal recommendation from the heart.  When I recommend a book or a movie, it’s because I’ve loved it so much, I want you to love it, too. 

Because when we both love something, whether it’s a book or a movie or maybe even a sports team or something we collect, we share a common bond.  Common bonds unite people, and that’s a good thing.

What have you shared with your friends?  What have they shared with you?  Have you discovered a new author or a new hobby you might never have tried before?

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60 Responses to “Thanks for sharing”

  1. TinaLouiseF on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:26 am #

    It took me a while, but I finally got my best friend to start reading J.D. Robb’s In Death series.

    My friend and her husband have role playing senarios. My one character was started in 2001. I don’t play as often as they would like me to.

  2. Cookiedough on 03 Oct 2007 at 9:29 am #

    I share everything with my friends. Tell them which tv shows I think they’d like and know they are missing. Dirty Sexy Money for instance, I told two friends and it got good reviews and I got thank yous.
    I’m always sharing movies with my friends and family. I have to keep a list of what goes out from my house - my friends call my place the movie store. One friend who is a librarian, gave me some back of the book envelopes and cards to keep track.
    As for books, I’m a hoarder, and guard my stash. I’ll tell girlfriends about authors- most of whom are right here on Mount Olympus! they have to buy their own copies though.

  3. Julia London on 03 Oct 2007 at 10:00 am #

    Dork alert…dork alert…I recently sent copies of The Secret to two very close friends. I figured it couldn’t hurt to try some positive thinking. We are reading it together and trying to turn our thought processes around. Just when you though t I couldn’t get any nerdier…

  4. Kay on 03 Oct 2007 at 10:03 am #

    I love to cook and share recipes. One of my favorite things to bake is cheesecake. I have invited friends over to teach them how to make my special cheesecakes, and it is so much fun.

  5. Karen Hawkins on 03 Oct 2007 at 10:21 am #

    KarenR, I love suggesting books to my kids. When they say, “Mom, I LOVED that book!” I just want to jump up and down in glee.

    Julia, my friends and I read a book together, too — The Six Pillars of Self Esteem. It was a great experience. Let us know how that goes, will ya?

    Ohhhh Kay, recipes are AWESOME to share. I may need that special cheesecake recipe. I have one, btw, that’s low(er) fat and cal and is STILL delish! I have a friend who is a bartender and she always gives me the BEST mixed drink recipes. AND I have some vegetarian friends and we share recipes all fo the time, too.

  6. Ladytink_534 on 03 Oct 2007 at 10:51 am #

    My husband’s step-cousin’s wife reads alot and she introduced me to Linda Lael Miller’s books. Needless to say I’ve been spending a lot of time in her worlds!

  7. Sabrina Jeffries on 03 Oct 2007 at 10:57 am #

    I tend to share everything, but I’m bad about sharing food. I always want to feed those I love! It’s a very bad habit since many of the people I love are overweight. Sigh.

    But I’m going to share a movie recommendation with you now–go see Feast of Love, especially if you liked Love Actually. It is SO wonderful. I laughed and cried and came away with a great warm and fuzzy feeling.

  8. Cookiedough on 03 Oct 2007 at 10:57 am #

    Cooking! I share my cooking everywhere! As a nanny, I’d be forever in the kitchen teaching the children how to make goodies. Now as a personal chef, I get paid for it, but still, sharing.
    Kay- I do cheesecakes too. I make all my friends and family’s birthday cakes. Chocolate Carrot cake with chocolate cream cheese icing anyone? the icing itself could be used as a cheesecake. so yummmy and not at all low cal!
    I share most of my recipes and love to trade with sisters anything new we’ve found

  9. Lisa H on 03 Oct 2007 at 11:04 am #

    Julia I love to think you were out there promoting positve thinking! Nothing nerdy about it!

    I shared one of my favorite movies with two of my closest friends. One loved it and bought her own copy and one hated it. (The movie was Under the Tuscan Sun)

    Another friend and I share book recommendations with each other. We tend to enjoy very different genres but every now and then we hit on a book we both love and we talk it to death.

    There is nothing (save my husband) that I would not share with my friends. I am blessed with some great ones!

  10. SuzyQ on 03 Oct 2007 at 11:14 am #

    Oh I love to cook so it’s only natural I like to share recipes too. When we have get togethers with friends we all help each other out in the kitchen too – it’s a great way to learn new recipes.

    I also share books with my nephew. Every holiday and birthday I buy him a new book I think he’ll like. It works out great with series because I can always get him the next book out. Now he’s starting to send me recommendations on other books he’s read, which is usually along the same lines as the Harry Potter books.

  11. Ronlyn on 03 Oct 2007 at 11:37 am #

    In particular, I share everything with my sisters. A few Christmas ago (ok, several) I was moving out on my own and I needed to put my kitchen together, so my older sister sent me a recipe box FULL of recipes. she’ll still send me some, which is great fun.
    I share books a lot. Well, I’ve more started pointing people in the direction of the books but keep my own since I haven’t gotten them back a few times.
    FOOD. I love to cook, and even more, I love to feed people.
    Mostly though, I love to share experiences. My oldest nephew was interested in glass blowing so I, with his parents permission, picked him up from school one morning and took him to a glass blowing shop where I’d arrainged for the owner/artist to show him more specifics. Great fun and brought me great joy.

  12. Karen Hawkins on 03 Oct 2007 at 11:56 am #

    And let’s not forget how Cookiedough so bravely and boldly shared the real life pic of her friend, Michael, for our FROS. It was our most popular FROS ever!

  13. Sherri Erwin on 03 Oct 2007 at 12:12 pm #

    I’m sure Ms. NYT #7 Julia London’s friends are more than happy to get their hands on her secrets! Plus, I can’t imagine they think she’s a dork (because it’s probably a shared condition).

    Cookiedough, I love Dirty Sexy Money, too. Great cast! Karen R, sharing with your kids and finding out they actually get it and appreciate it is the best feeling. I’m usually expecting an “aw mom” and the eyeroll, but then sometimes they surprise you.

  14. Sherri Erwin on 03 Oct 2007 at 12:14 pm #

    Ronlyn, you are one cool aunt. Glass blowing, how fun!

  15. Julia London on 03 Oct 2007 at 12:35 pm #

    Well thanks Lisa, Karen and Sherri. I don’t feel so dorky now. I feel positive!

  16. doglady on 03 Oct 2007 at 12:35 pm #

    I concur, Karen H! Sharing Michael with us was SO VERY KIND, cookiedough! I love to tell my friends about new books/authors and I love for them to reciprocate. We do the same with movies. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a book AND movie I always recommend. I just the love the Southern lunacy of it all. I share quilt patterns as well. I have found some really gorgeous ones in my research for new ideas for gifts for my family. I have had to limit the family to one person getting something quilted per year. I think writing is the ultimate act of sharing. Each time you let someone read what you have written you share a very intimate part of yourself. It is one of the toughest and one of the most rewarding things I have done. And the closer I get to MAYBE being published, the scarier it gets!!

  17. Sherri Erwin on 03 Oct 2007 at 12:43 pm #

    Doglady, it never stops being scary, but maybe that’s part of the draw. Keep sharing! You might enjoy Toni Morrison’s short story, Everyday Use– there’s a quilt theme. Julia, that’s the spirit! If you think you’re a dork, you’re only going to attract more dorkiness and where would you be then?

  18. Ellen da scrooge on 03 Oct 2007 at 12:55 pm #

    Because I do everything backwards, let me begin with what I refuse to share.
    There’s the obvious toothbrush… and we ALL remember the description of my bra and panties, so the line to borrow them won’t be too long. However, there are other things that make me want to Daffy Duck. (Mine, mine, mine, mine!)

    Don’t touch my deodorant. Maybe it’s because I’m the mother of a 14 year old, male/ creature who thinks that deodorant can replace a shower if time is of the essence.

    Don’t use my lipstick, even if you are polite enough to put it on your pinky finger first.

    Don’t borrow my clothing unless it’s an outer garment. The last thing I want to see, is you looking better in my favorite blouse than I do, while complaining about the roomy fit.

    Don’t borrow my expertise. We both know I have NO expertise and that you only want to monopolize my time at a party complaining about your children. I already have one of those at home, so solve your own dilemmas.

    Ditto to borrowing my husband, at the same party, for free legal advice.

    You can borrow my car, my house, my money, but don’t borrow my dog-chewed pink slippers. They’re mine! (mine, mine, mine!)

  19. Erin Bean on 03 Oct 2007 at 1:18 pm #

    Recently I found my friend and my husband sharing their selves with each other. Needless to say I don’t have neither of them anymore. Does that count as sharing?

    But luckily it did not involve my best friend and book buddy with. We are constantly sharing titles with each other. In fact if I like a book so much I go and buy her a copy so I won’t have to share mine with her. Some things I share, like germs or cookies, well it depends on the cookie, or movies, it depends on the movie too, but books, nope. I don’t share those. I once let a friend borrow my favorite series and I never got it back. Yes I’m still friends with her I just don’t let her borrow my books.

    My friend is the same way, we’ve both had bad weeks and we where laughing because of our bad weeks we’ve both spent at least $30 or more on new books and it’s only Wednesday. So now each night we share our thoughts on our new books online. It’s been a blast.

  20. Ellen da scrooge on 03 Oct 2007 at 1:21 pm #

    At my very first RWA, I met Lani Diane Rich (author of Maybe, Baby) at a broken ATM. We got to know each other as we searched the hotel looking for another source of cash. Nothing unites two ladies together faster than a common goal.

    Anyway, the search left us quite parched, so we made a bee line for the bar. When we got there, Lani shared all her other “published” friends with me. My favorite of all was Karen Rose. I kid you not when I tell you that her opening line to me was, “Do you want to hear about the time I was almost excommunicated from my church?” I believe I snarked a marguerita through my nose on that one. We’ve been buddies every since.

    As a result of Lani sharing Karen and Karen sharing her books and this blog site, I am a very content woman in the midst of wonderful minds, good friends and great reading.

  21. Lisa H on 03 Oct 2007 at 1:43 pm #

    I want to hear the story of how Karen was almost excommunicated from her church…Karen will you share…

  22. Karen Hawkins on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:02 pm #

    No kidding!!! Karen Rose, do TELL!

  23. Karen Rose on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:02 pm #

    I’m back from LUNCH - which I shared with my friend Betina Krahn!

    Well, the church story is a bit long. Here is the Readers’ Digest version. Years ago when DH and I were in college, we attended a church with a very likeable minister, who said he had a PhD in psychology from a very major Ivy League school and counseled many church folks on the side. Little by little (which we could clearly see in hindsight), this man had jockeyed for more control of the church budget, until he was a single board vote away from having sole say of the church checkbook. Huh? you might ask, but remember, we were IN it at the time and couldn’t see the forest for the many trees.

    DH at the time was studying psychology and said that many of the things this “minister” said were wrong, but we said “get a grip, you’re just a college kid.” Turns out DH was right and the “minister” had lied about his entire resume - he wasn’t a minister and had no PhD from anywhere! Luckily the state recognized cont

  24. Karen Rose on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:04 pm #

    recognized all the marriages he did. Phew! He was going to marry me and DH in just a year, so we lucked out. Anyway, the church split into 3 factions - one said he should leave, one said he should stay and one faction left. It got messy and I was kind of excommunicated - but not really. It was more a literary license at the time. But there was a great deal of name calling and a few death threats even. Not an experience I’d care to relive.

    But that time I got to make Ellen laugh! Now she makes us laugh so the story ends HEA!!!

  25. Karen Rose on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:05 pm #

    This guy’s lies were revealed (another long story) the night before the big board vote, so he never got sole control of the budget, btw.

    And now people listen to DH when he says stuff.

    The End

  26. Karen Rose on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:13 pm #

    Um… Kay has never shared her cheesecakes with me. I’m distraught! But she did introduce me to DH, so we’re more than square.

    Cookiedough- your chocolate carrot cake sounds almost as good as your FROS friend looked!

  27. Ellen da scrooge on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:23 pm #

    The point is, even though the story was a serious one, I cannot resist being in the company of people who can throw out something like that as an opening line. AND…I am ashamed to remember how hard I laughed when you brought up the fact that he was going to marry you and DH right around that time.

    Thanks for sharing, Karen.

  28. Ellen da scrooge on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:26 pm #

    Hey Guys…I just started Jenny Craig yesterday. Please don’t make me read the words “chocolate carrot cake ” one more time today.

  29. Ellen da scrooge on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:29 pm #

    Karen Hawkins…you have a bartender friend who won’t make us fatter? d’ya mind sharing her? LOL

  30. Ellen da scrooge on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:31 pm #

    Hook me up to an intravenous, low-cal, chocolate martini at one!

  31. Ellen da scrooge on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:34 pm #

    once

  32. Karen Rose on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:54 pm #

    CHOCOLATE CARROT CAKE
    CHOCOLATE CARROT CAKE
    CHOCOLATE CARROT CAKE
    CHOCOLATE CARROT CAKE
    CHOCOLATE CARROT CAKE

  33. Karen Rose on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:55 pm #

    My evil knows no bounds….

  34. cail on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:57 pm #

    just moments ago one of my coworkers just brought a box of Magnolia Bakery Cupcakes for the team to share. Now that is what I call generous.

    Unfortunately I now have a tummy ache from the sugar overload.

    I like to cook and share my food, I like to share my opinions on nearly every subject. I like eating at family style restaurants where everyone shares all the dishes. I like to share movies and books with friends. Most of all I like to share my home while hosting parties both small and large.

  35. Julia London on 03 Oct 2007 at 2:58 pm #

    Good Lord, Karen R! No wonder you are burning up the charts with diabolic tales!

  36. Karen Hawkins on 03 Oct 2007 at 3:00 pm #

    Karen Rose, you are plain EVIL! It’s one of the things I like best about you. :)

    Ellen, yep, my friend does have some low(er) cal drinks! She said cranberry juice is one of the most underrated and best finds for bartenders the world around.

    I’ll get some recipes.

    Btw, my mother lost 40 lbs on the nutri-systems diet over the last three months. Now my dad’s going to try it! Best of luck and let us know how it works.

  37. Karen Rose on 03 Oct 2007 at 3:02 pm #

    It’s safe to say nobody wants me to share anything I’ve ever cooked. I’m better at killing people in my books than cooking - and many have voiced a fear of a similar end if they were to eat my culinary disasters.

    Last time I cooked for a large group was 1993. I made pancakes from a box mix for my uncle and aunt and other relatives after they’d hit the wine a little hard the night before while eating DH’s fondue. I didn’t know pancake mix had a shelf life- apparently the box I possessed had baking powder that had gone kaput.

    My uncle tossed my pancakes around like they were frisbees and made whirring noises like they were UFOs. I’ve never cooked for him again.

    My aunt hit him for me.

    Although the frisbee pancakes had exceptional aerodynamic lift.

  38. Karen Rose on 03 Oct 2007 at 3:06 pm #

    Cail - I used to go to this Chinese restaurant in Cincinnati with friends. Each table had a 4 foot diameter Lazy Susan and they served the meals family style. Big bowls full of Lo Mein, Kung Pao etc. Everybody got to share. It was like a buffet at our very own table.

    Yummy!

  39. Ronlyn on 03 Oct 2007 at 3:11 pm #

    LOL…speaking of pancakes….the morning my mom & step-dad were getting married my s-d made pancakes for everyone. He mistakenly used powdered sugar instead of flour. LOL.

  40. Ronlyn on 03 Oct 2007 at 3:13 pm #

    how bad am I to admit that one of my greatest secret pleasures about being the mom of 2 boys is that there are no other girls in the house to try to share my makeup/clothes/jewlery/purses, etc. LOL.

  41. Georgie Lee on 03 Oct 2007 at 3:14 pm #

    I hooked my office on Cheeze-It peanut butter sandwiches covered in chocolate. It sounds weird but I made it for an office pot luck and people were coming to me the next day and asking if I had anymore at home. I’m not a cook and the most cooking involved is melting the chocolate chips in the microwave and spreading PB on the Cheeze-Its.

  42. Cookiedough on 03 Oct 2007 at 3:21 pm #

    oh my gosh! I go away from the computor for a few hrs and came back to this–snorting my diet coke never felt so good, reading all the share stories with a laugh
    Chocolate Carrot Cake
    lol
    sorry Ellen!
    I do have some lo cal recipes too!
    thanks KarenH for the Michael share reminder. I forgot about him! so sad, perimenopause has kicked in!

  43. Karen Rose on 03 Oct 2007 at 3:22 pm #

    Sometimes I don’t like sharing my makeup and stuff with my daughter, but sometimes it’s fun. Except when I need it and can’t find it. One daughter wouldn’t be caught dead in makeup, the other never met a mirror she didn’t like. So I always know which one has my makeup.

  44. Karen Hawkins on 03 Oct 2007 at 4:29 pm #

    Ronlyn, one of the happiest days of my life was when my daughter’s foot size grew larger than mine. I love my daughter and she has GREAT taste in clothes, but she never returns ANYTHING. Even when I was moving her to college a few months ago, I found a shoe and said, “Wait! This is my shoe!” and she said, “Yeah, but I can’t find the other one.” and I said, “That’s because I have it!”

    Yep, one shoe was with me in Florida and one with her in TN. I love her to death, but I do NOT like it when my shoes go missing!!!

  45. Karen Rose on 03 Oct 2007 at 4:50 pm #

    How’s this for sad - I’m wearing my 13 year old’s hand me down shoes - I like them and she wasn’t wearing them so I took them.

    HA! Justice is served.

  46. Sherri on 03 Oct 2007 at 5:52 pm #

    Being an avid reader, I love to share little excerpts of books I’m reading with my students. These are not the books I teach; these are books that fulfill my interest and love of reading. Karen Rose books of course top the charts, as well as Julie Garwood, Nora Roberts, etc. I’ll start class off once in awhile with something like, “Hey, guys, you wouldn’t believe what happened last night…” Nothing gets twelve-year-olds more interested that learning something personal about their teachers. If they can “share” something personal with me, such as a book talk or book suggestion, that’s a bond. So, sharing excerpts of new books holds a two-fold purpose. One, it allows a connection between you and a student (most of the time several students). Two, it allows students to see that you really can get excited about a book…you just have to keep looking until you find your niche. Voila! Seventh grade Language Arts may not be so bad after all.

  47. Cookiedough on 03 Oct 2007 at 5:53 pm #

    haha, shoes!
    I used to take my mom’s shoes all the time. she had a plethera of them though. She was a shoes and purse lady. When she passed away 2 yrs ago, we had three laundry baskets full of shoes and purses to go through.
    When I was a child, I used to play in her jewelry box a lot. she had this necklace that I used to put on my head and wear as a crown. I caught the girls I used to look after doing that exact thing with it from my box the last time they came over. That is their favourite thing to do. Raid my closet for shoes , purses , hats and a trip through my jewelry boxes.
    ok, caught myself reminiscing!

  48. Ronlyn on 03 Oct 2007 at 6:20 pm #

    my mom & my sister used to swipe my clothes and accessories. Drove me batty to go put on a shirt or sweater and not be able to find it…only to discover one of them had it.
    I still find random pieces of clothes in my mom’s closet that were mine. *rolling my eyes*
    So, even though I said i don’t like to share, I had SO much fun going through all my costume jewlery and helping my son put together a cool pirate costume for “Pirate Day” at school. So, see, I do share…but only when it’s my idea. ;)

  49. Kay on 03 Oct 2007 at 6:33 pm #

    Oh Erin, I’m so sorry. The best revenge is to “kill them off” in a romantic suspense novel. Read all of Karen R’s books and see what I mean! Then write about the man of your dreams as the hero. :-)

    Karen R, I’m wearing my 12 year-old SON’S hand-me-down shoes from this summer (Tevas, so they’re unisex) and I get veto power on his next winter jacket, because it will be mine the following year!

    Karen H. I am willing to share any cheesecake recipe, and would give live instructions to any goddess or aspirant goddess. :-) My Fall favorite is has an apple/pecan topping and I use gingersnaps in the crust. I am in the process of trying a new pumpkin one. I hope to have it right for Thanksgiving.

    My Dh and I made the three-tiered cheesecake wedding cake, and satelite cakes, for a friend’s wedding 15 years ago, and I still can’t eat an apricot cheesecake. LOL Don’t even get me started on the horrors of cream cheese icing!

  50. Kay on 03 Oct 2007 at 6:35 pm #

    BTW, if any goddess is at a loss for a blog topic, we can all share a favorite recipe that has a special memory attached to it. :-)

  51. darkshire007 on 03 Oct 2007 at 6:58 pm #

    I shared a tent with six other women for 6 months in Kuwait. You learn tolerance very quickly. Does that count as sharing? :-)

  52. Kay on 03 Oct 2007 at 7:12 pm #

    Darkshire, you rock!!!!!! I am in total awe of you. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

  53. Julia London on 03 Oct 2007 at 7:48 pm #

    Kay, I was going to suggest the same thing to Erin!! Kill them off ala Karen Rose!

    Darkshire, I fear I would have been court martialed for not playing well with others. I am scraping the floor bowing to you now -

  54. Kathy on 03 Oct 2007 at 8:06 pm #

    Evening all….
    I have shared my home with various relatives, for various length of times, with a variety of results. Not all pleasant.
    I love to share books too……….advice, lunch, dinner, breakfast and a drink now and then. Never the husband, happened to me too…the “friend” and the husband. Hah!!The best revenge is living well. There. I have shared. Let us live well, laugh often, and dance like no one is staring. pointing and laughing. Ta da……

  55. Brandy on 03 Oct 2007 at 9:44 pm #

    Books. I share news of books I enjoyed, authors I like and sometimes movies. I’ve shared of MY hobbies, but haven’t really tried any my online friends have suggested.

  56. Dot C on 03 Oct 2007 at 11:49 pm #

    I once shared a camping trip with friends of mine from highschool that had all gotten together during summer break. I was an avid camper at the time, had great gear (primitive tho, i was in it for the natural experience). Everything about that weekend was a disaster of such ginormous proportions it still makes me laugh till I cry almost 17 years later. And I never shared camping with bona fide non-campers again.
    I’m sharing lunch with a friend tomorrow, and sharing “Pumpkinland” http://www.chipmanpumpkinland.com/ with another friend on Sunday. Actually, I’m feeling very loved and wanted this week as my social calendar seems very full. This is an anomaly.
    I’m also hosting a booksigning and meet and greet for Robin MacCready and her friend Carrie Jones. They will be sharing the time and podium. :)
    I share my bourbon with my Mr, and my Blue Hurricane with my bestest girlfriend. LOL
    Cheers!
    Homemade applecrisp served warm with handwhipped vanilla cream.
    Dot

  57. Karen Rose on 04 Oct 2007 at 1:25 am #

    Sherri, thank you!

    Darkshire, I salute you. Thank you for your service.

    Now I want homemade apple crisp with vanilla cream…

  58. Karen Rose on 04 Oct 2007 at 1:25 am #

    Oh, and for the road:

    CHOCOLATE CARROT CAKE

  59. Cookiedough on 04 Oct 2007 at 9:14 pm #

    I’m gonna have to post the recipe aren’t i?

  60. Ellen on 06 Oct 2007 at 11:54 am #

    I’m telling Jenny Craig on all of you!