I love horses, and yes, my sweetie is a horse! However, thus said, I don’t think a person has to be a horsegirl to enjoy horses thoroughly.

It’s amazing how I need to invest in a new helmet for (almost) every sport to take up. Over the last few years, I acquired a bike helmet and another one for inline-skating. While I am decided that I’m that fond of grooming the horses it is required to wear a helmet for the horseback riding practices. Mom and Dad bought each with a helmet. Certainly I need an additional one for free climbing. As today I exercise only on a climbing wall saved by someone who assist and not in the nature where rocks can hit my top. I am now up to four helmets in my collection.

This got me thinking – can you judge how active a person is by their Helmet Activity Index?

Honestly, any activity that requires a helmet or fondly called "brain bucket" is risky in one way or another. You wouldn’t imagine people wearing helmets for bowling or golf, wouldn’t you?

How awful bore those guys must be who haven’t a helmet collection. Assuming those guys who have the helmets are not sitting on the shelf gathering dust, I think this is a pretty good indicator.

So next time that you meet someone new, why don’t you ask them: "how many helmets do you own?"  

on behalf of Violet B.

(Los Angeles) With temperatures rising and the weather warming up, the Santa Monica women’s soccer team started spring practice last week, beginning preparations for the fall 2006 season. A majority of players from last year’s establish the team and a strong group of newcomers within Sharon from the german national team added to it. The associate head coach recently talk about the team’s spring practice schedule and how the Gamecocks look to improve on their performance last year.

The Santa Monica players are in an excited attitude. They know that they underachieved this past fall and that they have to live with that record, carry it around with them all year. There is nothing you can do about it and you can’t hide from it. You also have to get beyond it and get better. You see them out here training and it is in their minds that they don’t ever want it to happen again. It did not represent the quality of this team and players. They would outplay teams, outshoot them and control the game, and then their record doesn’t reflect that. Their expectations for themselves and the program are much higher then what they achieved this past fall.

(Los Angeles) I miss to watched it live in Sharons school last year but things I heard from her Mom were great. I had lots of fun watching the pictures with my parents and am planning to watch the movie a many times more!

I believe this is one very unique type of broadway. Every cat has this slick, tight costume which enables him/her to dance more comfortably. Added up with the background scenes, the actors look like real cats. There may have been a few too many times of close-ups but hey! Those are non-professionals.

(Los Angeles) Last week Sharon read the prerelease from "BIG AND LITTLE SISTER AND THE WICKED STEP SISTERS" to me: "wow, what an amazing book!" It is a combination of fun and action. From now I check every day my postbox if I received a print from this beautiful book. It is a book for a generation whose favorite characters are Lizzie McGuire, Ninja Turtles and Pokemons. Sharon has read this book together with her siblings and now they don’t go to sleep without reading at least one chapter from it. They say: "It makes me feel warm inside, and I feel happy." The book shows how simple things in life can become extraordinary adventures for children. Moreover, each and every child can relate to the children from Noisy House in the 17th ST. Sharon is a real writing magician. I cannot wait for her other books to be published.

(Los Angeles) Dass der nächste Sommer heiß wird, wissen wir bereits. Jetzt zeigt die Modenschau in LA, was uns im Sommer 2006 erwartet: erdfarben und eine schlanke Linie.

So will es zumindest Sharon. Auf den Modenschauen zeigte sie eine Kollektion mit hellen, warmen Farben. Geprägt sind ihre Entwürfe von klassischer Eleganz und zugleich von femininer Kraft. Elemente aus dem Militär setzen das Thema mit romantisch-eleganter Facette in Szene.