What's Going On Here?

There are SO MANY wonderful book review blogs out there and I can't compete with them, that is for sure. So this is not a book review blog. This is just a way for me to organize what I have read so that I can be better at matching the right book to the right person. The blog title comes from the brilliant mind of the most talented woman who ever lived, Ms. Judy Garland. The full quote is, "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." That is what I hope to do here and in ever aspect of my life.

Friday, March 30, 2018

Kennedy Connection

My grandfather was a professor at the University of Pittsburgh  and he worked at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Blind a billion years ago and he started this adaptive physical education program thing for people who are differently abled, physically and/or intellectually.  A billion years ago he received a letter from Eunice Kennedy Shriver, which said really cool things about his work.  Rosemary:  The Hidden Kennedy Daughter was a good book.  I wanted to read it after reading JJAL.  I find myself REALLY not liking Joe or Rose Kennedy at all after reading this book. 
I find myself REALLY liking Eunice and Anthony Shriver after reading this book.  And especially Rosemary herself as, like Anthony said, seems to have been the Kennedy who did the most good in her life.  “The interest [Rosemary] sparked in my family towards people with special needs,” Anthony claims, “will one day go down as the greatest accomplishment that any Kennedy has made on a global basis.”

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