Escapism

There is nothing like a good book with an excellent glass of wine to take the edge off of life. Mine doesn't suck in the "Katrina took my home and kids" kind of way, but I am sure as hell not living la vida loca either. So there are times that I take in the simple pleasures of life. And just look how happy it makes me:

In the picture I'm reading "The Bean Trees." I am too lazy to look up the author, but it was a good book. I also read "The Handmaidens Tale" by Margaret Atwood this week. What an amazing book! It is written in the early 1980's but shows what would happen if George Bush Jr. really did take over the U.S.A. Creepy. As in HOLY VERY OH MY GOD CREEPY.

Here's a partial description:
"In the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, far-right Schlafly/Falwell-type ideals have been carried to extremes in the monotheocratic government. The resulting society is a feminist's nightmare: women are strictly controlled, unable to have jobs or money and assigned to various classes: the chaste, childless Wives; the housekeeping Marthas; and the reproductive Handmaids, who turn their offspring over to the "morally fit" Wives. The tale is told by Offred (read: "of Fred"), a Handmaid who recalls the past and tells how the chilling society came to be.'

If you haven't read it, I highly recommend that you do. If anything it reminds us that, indeed, we do need to fight, for our right, to paaar-tay!