What I'm Reading

I am so excited! I don't get many comments on this blog - although I'd love it if you would respond (click on comments at the end of the post - where it usually says "O comments"), but several of you read the blog and send me email messages (preferred email is info@orrenstewartpress.com). And tonight, for the first time, someone sent me an email to ask what I was reading and watching on TV these days. I feel as if I'm in People Magazine!

I recently finished Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, which validated my decision to avoid ashrams this lifetime, and to travel to Italy often. Obviously the "Eat" part resonated with me. After that, I read The Lovely Bones while on vacation in Oregon. I'd had the book for several years, and it was time to read it. GREAT book--brilliant storyline. Now I'm into Running Scared, the book about Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas mogul, loaned to me by my pal, Terry. It's not a flattering portrait, but I still love Wynn's hotels and casinos.

Because I enjoy following pop culture, no matter how out-of-control it's been lately, I read People, and enjoy Real Simple , Bon Appetit and Conde Nast Traveler. Newspapers are still in my veins, so I read all of the local ones.

As for TV, I don't have much time to watch. I have it on as "white noise" on some days while working - mostly the morning news shows, "Regis & Kelly" and the Food Network. I "brake" for Oprah and Ellen - stop work if I can and watch whenever their shows are new and I'm at home. I love reality TV, especially "Top Chef" and "Dancing with the Stars." If I'm lucky, I get to watch the occasional "Ugly Betty," "House," "Grey's Anatomy" and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." I join Gary for Monday Night Football, golf tournaments and Denver Bronco Football on Sundays, plus his beloved "Myth Busters" and car shows (not my faves, but hey, he watches "Ugly Betty" with me).

Our latest homespun fun is to watch TV on the front porch. One recent evening when it was ridiculously hot indoors, we decided to sit on the porch because there was a breeze, but Gary still wanted to watch TV. He had the brainstorm to put the guest room TV in the front window so we could turn our comfy glider chairs around and view TV from the cool outdoors. We've brought redneck trailer life to our neighborhood and had several comments about it from neighbors lately. It doesn't get any better than fresh air, wine and TV on the front porch these late summer evenings...