I found a good deal on shoes from a European web site. I looked up the size conversion and it says US size 8 is a 38 1/2. But there are no 1/2 sizes offered on this web site for any of their shoes, to my dismay. Is there any chance European sizes run slightly off or is the conversion chart pretty accurate?

Anonymous wrote:Left DC behind for good and moved to the warm sun and sand! Lifelong dream~Finally Realized!

cool! where did you go?

Anonymous wrote:Is this Zumba Mama? If it is then i owe you an apology.

No, it's not me.

El Chalan on I & 19th - Peruvian

Pret A Mange on I & 18th - soup/salad/sandwiches

The family paintings that adorn my walls. From my great-grandmother's still lives, to my grandfather's abstracts to my kids' finger paintings of kitty cats. Also love my Fender Passport and my coffee grinder.

Anonymous wrote:Cleopatra

Amazing how little it takes to be a Pulitzer-winning author.

What don't you like about it? I just ordered it.

Was reading Save the World by Julia Alvarez, but I can't get into it. So, I went to go buy Cleopatra but it was all sold out.

music. For me, Pitbull always lifts my spirits.

Anonymous wrote:Re: Confederacy of Dunces... that's one I didn't count, because I just couldn't get into it. What do people like about it? Does it get better after the first few chapters?

Also, I hear a lot of love for Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but have never read any. Can someone tell me what kind of stories they are, and what you love about them?

I've read three GG Marquez books, my favorite being One Hundred Years of Solitude. It's like a million little stories about a fictitious South American town, Macondo, rolled into one gigantic tale. He braids the stories of the explorers, founders, natives and the families that populate the town over a century—blending adventure, romance, history and fantasy very poetically. Some find it a bit slow and hard to follow because of how much he elaborates on the many, many members of the Buendia family over several generations, but it's that intricacy that keeps me glued. Love in the Time of Cholera moves a bit slower than Solitude, but is a beautiful, although sad, read about the many faces of love and the "disease" of materialism that takes over a fictional Caribbean town at the turn of the century.

I've read 28 of them, but a couple of them twice. Never got into Harry Potter.

Oh I've always wanted to try Teasim. And Black Finn looks really yummy too. I will let my friend decide.

Any recs for nice places to eat lunch with quick service but not fast food?

All you really need to do is turn some music on. You don't have to be able to play the music in order to appreciate it. I am a huge music lover, but I can't play any instruments.

However, the Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty and Peter and the Wolf helped my DCs develop a taste for Tchaikovsky.

And although I also prefer the real thing to Baby Einstein, my DCs still developed an appreciation for Mozart and Beethoven from listening to Baby Einstein when they were younger. They asked for real classical CDs for Christmas years later.

Didn't the Virgin Mary wear one too?

I like Flor. Like in that movie Spanglish. Although people wouldn't be able to roll the rrrrr and then it would become Floor.