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A to Z Challenge 2017: L

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Let it be  is a touching tale of loss, longing, and forgiveness that chronicles the breakup of a marriage, the destruction of a family, and the struggle to come together in the aftermath of what remains. Searching for the love and happiness she feels she deserves, Michelle Jansen leaves her abusive, overbearing husband behind and takes her two kids to Amarillo, Texas, where she begins to learn how to stand on her own two feet, supporting herself and her children with the money she earns from a low-paying job as she becomes increasingly involved with a coworker who is an even bigger fan of the Beatles than she is. But Michelle doesn’t realize that her ex-husband is willing to do whatever he can to destroy her new life. When Michelle is betrayed by her very own son, this already fractured family will be damaged in an almost unimaginable way. Can they find forgiveness in the midst of so much sorrow and guilt, or will love give them the strength that they need to let it be? Part fam...

A to Z Challenge: L

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Latifundium  Definition: a large country estate Sentence: They decided that Aunt May's latifundium in England would be the perfect place for their wedding. Labile  Definition: open to change;  apt or likely to change; adaptable Sentence: The couple was very labile to their new surroundings. Lachrymose Definition:  showing sorrow. Sentence:  She had got rid of her tears before she came down to dinner, but still she was melancholy and almost lachrymose.          — Anthony Trollope Lassitude Definition:  weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy. Sentence:  He told by her very attitude that now there was lassitude, even weariness in her.            — Algernon Blackwood Legerdemain Definition:  an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers. Sentence:  Everything short of this is trick, legerdemain, sleight of hand.         ...

L is for Logic Puzzles

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Okay, so I am just going to show all my geeky tendencies in the challenge this year.  As far as things that keep your brain sharp go I am nuts over logic puzzles, always have been.  Basically a logic puzzle consists of a grid and a series of clues, you use the clues to mark off spaces in the grid and make a locgical deduction to solve the problem.