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Dear Reader,
When my husband walked into our bedroom he saw me hunched-up, knees pulled up to my chest, arms tucked in at my sides and my head upside down resting on the bed. Not a comfortable position, but functional considering the circumstances.
"May I ask what the heck you're doing?" A concerned, queer look was on my husband's face. "Do you have a stomach ache, are you in pain?"
"No, I've discovered this is the best way to watch our new television--from the bottom up. I'm trying to see people's heads."
Apparently my response didn't put my husband at ease. "What the heck are you talking about?"
Four months ago my husband and I bought a new flat screen TV for our bedroom. No doubt about it, the crystal clear high definition looks fabulous, my Tivo works great, there are options galore, including accessing the Internet--my only complaint is when I'm watching a show, everybody's head is cut off at the top.
Faced with the challenge of figuring out how three remotes work (every piece of equipment has its own device) and yes, I know you can program three remotes into one, but if I can't figure out how to view people's heads on the screen, there's "no hope, no hope" of confronting such a technical feat.
So for the past four months, the actors on the TV screen all have missing heads--well at least part of their heads, and my theory for a solution, as crazy as it sounds, was to look at the screen from the bottom up, to try to meet people's heads where they were--somewhere lost in the top of the flat screen.
"Suzanne this is nuts." My husband picked up one of the remotes, hit a zoom aspect button, and instantly the heads I'd been missing for the past four months appeared on the screen.
No more hanging off the side of the bed, upside down. It's true, it's all in how you look at it--and the actors in my favorite TV shows definitely look better with the tops of their heads.
* The Vintage Apron winner is Kathy DeFever.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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* This month's Penguin Classics book is DEMIAN by Hermann Hesse. Start reading now and enter to win a Penguin bookbag. Go to: http://tinyurl.com/November13Classics
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