Laurell K. Hamilton’s Thoughts on Love

I was reading Laurell K. Hamilton's blog the other day, and she recently celebrated her 7 year wedding anniversary. Her thoughts on the true meaning of love struck a chord with me, and I wanted to share:

To love successfully is to love more today than yesterday. It is knowing that sometimes the most romantic words in the world are not, I love you, or sweet nothings, but, "Don’t worry about it, I’ll do it." For love, true love, is a partnership. It is two individuals who together make a bigger whole, and a better person together than they were apart. To be truly, madly, deeply, in love is to understand that romance consists not just of lingerie and sweaty forgetfulness between the sheets, but in getting up each day and being there for each other. Being there on days when nothing goes right, and everything goes wrong, but even at the worst of times you’d rather be with this man, this person, beside you, than anyone else. Love is working together when it’s hard, so that on the days when it seems effortless and more beautiful than seems possible you know you earned this moment. You know that both of you, worked, and sweated, and loved, and earned it. You fall into love, like a trip down the stairs. You stay in love by being able to catch each other, and make sure the accident is worth the bruises.
~Laurell K. Hamilton

Black Dagger Brotherhood

I mentioned in my last October post that I'd be starting the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward. I was ambivalent at that point, ho hum, something to do until November 4th, the anxiously anticipated release date for both Laurell K. Hamilton and Sherrilyn Kenyon's new books.

Note to readers - do NOT take this series for granted! I read all six books of the series plus the recently released BDB Insiders Guide in record time. Since then, I've joined her message boards and post on the Yahoo group daily. Yes, I am total fangirl. Total.

So if I'm not back for a while, you'll know where to find me.

Another reason why I love Anthony Bourdain

Thank you to Elyse Wanshel and her "Short Order" blog for this snippet.

"All the Nasty Bits from an Evening with Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali"

At the Food & Wine Festival and while a photo was being snapped for the Miami Herald, Bourdain, while standing near a picture of his beloved Rachael Ray, wrote the numbers 666 on his hand and placed it in front of Ray’s forehead.