Comments on: My Weekend as a Role Model http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/my-weekend-as-a-role-model Austin, Texas novelist Ruth Pennebaker, who's old enough to call herself "fabulous," writes about family, politics, marriage, friendship, feminism, aging and whatever else occurs to her. Her upcoming novel, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough, will be published by Berkley in January 2011. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:23:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Alexandra http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/my-weekend-as-a-role-model/comment-page-1#comment-5282 Alexandra Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:13:51 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=2117#comment-5282 I wonder how you will feel when the sabbatical is up and you have to go home to Texas?  All those wonderful experiences will surely nourish you still.  When we lived in France, we went into Paris every Saturday for art museum, dinner on the Champs Elysees, and  a movie.  Sometimes I pause and remember what it felt like walking down the Champs, with people passing in both directions, and the exhilarating feeling comes right back ... I wonder how you will feel when the sabbatical is up and you have to go home to Texas?  All those wonderful experiences will surely nourish you still.  When we lived in France, we went into Paris every Saturday for art museum, dinner on the Champs Elysees, and  a movie.  Sometimes I pause and remember what it felt like walking down the Champs, with people passing in both directions, and the exhilarating feeling comes right back …

]]> By: MarthaAndMe http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/my-weekend-as-a-role-model/comment-page-1#comment-5279 MarthaAndMe Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:03:23 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=2117#comment-5279 I do the same thing you do- long for more when on trips. It's a bad habit I have. I always want to stay longer, see more, do more, experience more. I'm really trying to learn to just enjoy where I am at the moment, but it's hard. I do the same thing you do- long for more when on trips. It’s a bad habit I have. I always want to stay longer, see more, do more, experience more. I’m really trying to learn to just enjoy where I am at the moment, but it’s hard.

]]> By: Winston http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/my-weekend-as-a-role-model/comment-page-1#comment-5278 Winston Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:26:24 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=2117#comment-5278 <em>JCK-- Oh, that Robert Frank exhibit sounds fantastic!  As does your time in New York.  So glad you are having the time.  Perhaps the next novel….My Year in New York…. ??</em>   Oh, a book would be wonderful.  But if Ruth writes it, she will title her opus: <em>How I Lived a Year in New York With my Husband Without Losing My Mind.</em>   Of course, the year is young, she may lose it yet! JCK– Oh, that Robert Frank exhibit sounds fantastic!  As does your time in New York.  So glad you are having the time.  Perhaps the next novel….My Year in New York…. ??
 
Oh, a book would be wonderful.  But if Ruth writes it, she will title her opus: How I Lived a Year in New York With my Husband Without Losing My Mind.
 
Of course, the year is young, she may lose it yet!

]]> By: JCK http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/my-weekend-as-a-role-model/comment-page-1#comment-5276 JCK Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:23:16 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=2117#comment-5276 Oh, that Robert Frank exhibit sounds fantastic! As does your time in New York. So glad you are having the time. Perhaps the next novel....My Year in New York.... ?? Oh, that Robert Frank exhibit sounds fantastic! As does your time in New York. So glad you are having the time. Perhaps the next novel….My Year in New York…. ??

]]> By: ruthpennebaker http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/my-weekend-as-a-role-model/comment-page-1#comment-5275 ruthpennebaker Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:42:38 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=2117#comment-5275 <p>My husband's on sabbatical, writing a book, so we decided to come to the big city.</p> My husband’s on sabbatical, writing a book, so we decided to come to the big city.

]]> By: Roxanne @ Champion of My Heart http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/my-weekend-as-a-role-model/comment-page-1#comment-5274 Roxanne @ Champion of My Heart Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:59:16 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=2117#comment-5274 I'm sure I missed it somewhere, but *why* are you living in NYC for a while? Sounds fun. I’m sure I missed it somewhere, but *why* are you living in NYC for a while? Sounds fun.

]]> By: Sheryl Kraft http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/my-weekend-as-a-role-model/comment-page-1#comment-5273 Sheryl Kraft Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:50:08 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=2117#comment-5273 Ruth, It's a good sign you want more. It means you are enjoying your life and don't want the good things to end. I'm with you on that! (I also pore over the Sunday real estate section...saying someday...) Ruth, It’s a good sign you want more. It means you are enjoying your life and don’t want the good things to end. I’m with you on that! (I also pore over the Sunday real estate section…saying someday…)

]]> By: ruthpennebaker http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/my-weekend-as-a-role-model/comment-page-1#comment-5271 ruthpennebaker Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:24:18 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=2117#comment-5271 <p>Thank you all.  Cyndy, I usually don't clean my plate and we're walking a lot here.  Good lord, we are eating well; love the restaurants.  Marsha, when are you coming here?</p> <p>Hate to say it, but who on earth is Marlon Perkins?</p> <p> </p> Thank you all.  Cyndy, I usually don’t clean my plate and we’re walking a lot here.  Good lord, we are eating well; love the restaurants.  Marsha, when are you coming here?

Hate to say it, but who on earth is Marlon Perkins?

 

]]> By: Cindy A http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/my-weekend-as-a-role-model/comment-page-1#comment-5267 Cindy A Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:57:22 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=2117#comment-5267 I like Winston's Marlon Perkins analogy!  Don't forget your pith helmet, Ruth. LOL! I like Winston’s Marlon Perkins analogy!  Don’t forget your pith helmet, Ruth. LOL!

]]> By: Cynthia Marion http://www.geezersisters.com/new-york/my-weekend-as-a-role-model/comment-page-1#comment-5266 Cynthia Marion Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:07:20 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=2117#comment-5266 Ruth, It continues to amaze me that you eat at such fabulous restaurants all of the time and manage to remain so fashionably thin. What is your secret?  Cyndy Ruth,
It continues to amaze me that you eat at such fabulous restaurants all of the time and manage to remain so fashionably thin. What is your secret? 
Cyndy

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