Today I found a great online recipe community called the Mixing Bowl. It has an extensive collection of free recipes submitted by members of the Mixing Bowl recipe community. Includes desserts, drinks, slow cooker and more.

Dizzy Feet Foundation

Tonight on So You Think You Can Dance, Nigel Lythgoe announced the formation of a new foundation focusing on scholarships in dance. The Dizzy Feet Foundation was founded in 2009 by Nigel Lythgoe, director Adam Shankman, “Dancing with the Stars” judge Carrie Ann Inaba and actress Katie Holmes to support, improve, and increase access to dance education in the United States. Guided by a board consisting of some of the most illustrious names in the American dance community, the foundation’s mission is threefold: (1) to provide scholarships and grants to talented dancers, choreographers and teachers working at or through accredited dance studios; (2) to establish national standards for dance education and an accreditation program for dance; and (3) to develop, provide and support dance education programs for disadvantaged children by working through and with community organizations.

To read more about the Dizzy Feet Foundation and how to support the Foundation and dance, please go to the website: http://www.dizzyfeetfoundation.org/ or to http://www.fox.com/

Tune in on July 23rd to the 100th episode of So You Think You Can Dance for a special appearance by Katie Holmes who will be dancing a Broadway routine by Tyce Diorio.

The Veronicas - Take Me On The Floor

Tonight The Veronicas were on So You Think You Can Dance singing their single: Take Me on the Floor, an electropop-dance song from their second album Hook Me Up. I thought it was a pretty cool song so I've uploaded the video. For more info on The Veronicas, visit their official site: http://http//www.theveronicas.com/.

Farrah Fawcett dies at age 62 (1947 to 2009)

Feb. 2, 1947: Ferrah Leni Fawcett is born in Corpus Christi, Texas, to James and Pauline Fawcett.

1966: Enrolls in University of Texas at Austin, with the intent to major in microbiology or art.
1967: Moves to L.A. to pursue an acting career.

1967-1969: Lands various guest-starring roles on TV shows including I Dream of Jeannie and The Flying Nun.

1968: Begins a romance with actor Lee Majors.

1969: Makes her film debut in Italian feature Un home qui me plait (Love is a Funny Thing).

1970: Films her first major role as Mary Ann Pringle in Myra Breckenridge with Mae West, Raquel Welch and John Huston. There is much feuding reported on set, and the film, well behind schedule and considerably over budget, is a flop.

July 28, 1973: Marries Lee Majors and becomes Farrah Fawcett-Majors, a name she keeps in

film and TV credits until they separate in 1979.

March 1973: Appears in the TV movie The Six Million Dollar Man with her husband. She picks up the nickname "The Bionic Wife."

1973-1976: Has guest-starring roles on a number of TV shows, including recurring roles on The Six Million Dollar Man and Harry O. Also appears in a supporting role in the 1976 sci-fi film Logan's Run.

1976: Cast as beautiful private detective Jill Munroe on Aaron Spelling's new TV show Charlie's Angels, alongside Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith. The show, which has high ratings and poor reviews, introduces both Fawcett-Majors and "jiggle TV" to the world and becomes a cultural phenomenon. Fawcett-Majors poses for the now-famous red bathing suit poster that went on to sell more than 8 million copies and make her a superstar sex symbol. The layered hairstyle she wears in both the show and in the poster, known as "The Farrah," starts a trend for young girls (and sometimes boys).

1977: Leaves Charlie's Angels after one season, breaking her contract with the show. Among the reported reasons were dissatisfaction with both her salary and the material, plus frustrations with balancing the show's duties with her struggling marriage. Spelling threatens a lawsuit for breach of contract, but the parties settle out of court; Fawcett-Majors agrees to make several guest appearances in upcoming years. She is replaced by Cheryl Ladd.

1978-1980: Makes three big-budget films: Somebody Killed Her Husband, Sunburnand Saturn 3. All three are box-office disasters.

1979: Separates from Majors.

Feb. 16, 1982: Officially divorces Majors. Sometime between 1979 and 1982, she begins dating Ryan O'Neal, an actor best known for the movies Love Storyand Paper Moon.

1983: Fires her manager, changes her hairstyle and seeks more dramatic acting roles. For the next few years, she sticks mainly to TV movies. One of her most successful is The Burning Bed

(1984), which earns her Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. She also stars, to rave reviews, in the highly successful off-Broadway play Extremities.

Jan. 30, 1985: Son Redmond James O'Neal, with Ryan O'Neal, is born.

1986: Stars in the feature film version of Extremities.

1991: She and Ryan O'Neal star in a short-lived TV sitcom Good Sports, as former lovers/cable sportscasters.

1995: Returns to film with Chevy Chase in Man of the House, directed by her future lover James Orr. Fawcett also poses topless in Playboy, one of the magazine's best-selling issues of the decade.

1997: Breaks off her relationship with O'Neal, stars in her own Playboy video and begins dating Orr.

1998: Turns down Orr's marriage proposal; he severely beats her, is tried and convicted of assault and battery. Over the next few years, Fawcett keeps a low profile, but continues making both feature films and TV movies.

2001: Returns to the world of television series with a recurring role on Spin City. Former lover O'Neal is diagnosed with leukemia and the two rekindle their romance after she offers to help him through the disease. The reconciliation doesn't last.

2002: Earns another Emmy nomination for guest-starring on The Guardian.

2003: Comes close to a Broadway debut with Bobbi Boland, but the audience response is so disastrous, the play does not open.

2005: Stars in the TV Land reality series Chasing Farrah that shows her daily life.

Aug. 27, 2006: Appears at the Emmys with fellow original Charlie's Angels actresses Kate

Jackson and Jaclyn Smith following the June death of Angels executive producer Aaron Spelling.

Oct. 4, 2006: Announces that she has been diagnosed with anal cancer and is undergoing treatment. She and O'Neal begin living together again.

Feb. 2, 2007: Celebrates her 60th birthday with the news that she is cancer-free.

May 16, 2007: Reveals that doctors have found a malignant polyp near where her initial cancer had been treated. She says she is weighing treatment options, with O'Neal and their son, Redmond, by her side.

May 15, 2009: NBC airs Farrah's Story, a video diary shot by Fawcett and her friend, Alana Stewart, about her cancer treatment. Nearly 9 million people tune in.

Sources: Imdb.com; biography.com; nndb.com; eonline.com

Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood

I'm sad to admit that my newest addition is Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. It airs on the Oxygen network on Tuesdays (10E/9C). Entertainment Weekly calls it a "ridiculous reality treat" and I couldn't agree more. I happened upon it and now I'm hooked!

The Children's Hour (poem)

"The Children's Hour" is an 1860 poem first published by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the September 1860 edition of The Atlantic Monthly. The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair."

A photographic print of Thomas Buchanan Read's portrait of the three Longfellow daughters was widely distributed along with the poem.

The poem has, like Longfellow's other works, been called overly-sentimental, but it has remained one of the most frequently cited favorite American poems.

Full poem

Between the dark and the daylight,

When the night is beginning to lower,

Comes a pause in the day's occupations,

That is known as the Children's Hour.

I hear in the chamber above me

The patter of little feet,

The sound of a door that is opened,

And voices soft and sweet.

From my study I see in the lamplight,

Descending the broad hall stair,

Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra,

And Edith with golden hair.

A whisper, and then a silence:

Yet I know by their merry eyes

They are plotting and planning together

To take me by surprise.

A sudden rush from the stairway,

A sudden raid from the hall!

By three doors left unguarded

They enter my castle wall!

They climb up into my turret

O'er the arms and back of my chair;

If I try to escape, they surround me;

They seem to be everywhere.

They almost devour me with kisses,

Their arms about me entwine,

Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen

In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine!

Do you think, o blue-eyed banditti,

Because you have scaled the wall,

Such an old mustache as I am

Is not a match for you all!

I have you fast in my fortress,

And will not let you depart,

But put you down into the dungeon

In the round-tower of my heart.

And there will I keep you forever,

Yes, forever and a day,

Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,

And moulder in dust away!

The One Minute Writer

From The One Minute Writer blog:

Who's got the time to journal daily? You do.

How it works

1. Read the daily writing prompt.

2. Push "Play" on the timer on the right side of the screen.

3. Spend 60 seconds or less writing a response to the daily prompt.

Today's Writing Prompt: If you could live for a year at a different time in history, what time would you choose?

My response: As a child, I always wanted to live like Laura Ingalls Wilder. I wore a bonnet and loved reading by candlelight. I know that there were extreme hardships of being a pioneer family but I feel like today we (I) spend so much time wrapped up in events, issues, arguments, jobs and other crap that are meaningless in the grand scheme of things perhaps getting back to the bare basics would help put everything into proper perspective.