Table for Ten
A friend asked me the other day to think about who I would invite if I could have any ten people to dinner, regardless of time in history, gender, profession, etc. Also, where I would have this event,...
View ArticleA Cat NOT in a Hat
I’ve never been a cat person. Now, before all of you cat fanciers, cat lovers, cat worshipers jump all over me, let me explain. First, I am allergic to cats. Over the years I have broken out in hives,...
View ArticleMini Miracles
I was talking to someone that I’d just met the other day and somehow we got on the topic of miracles. I’ve had some things happen in my life that I’ve considered to be “signs from God.” One of my...
View ArticleSo Many Signs of Sandy
I am just back from a visit to my girls and the grandkids in New Jersey. I had’t been east for six months and it was my first since Superstorm Sandy. I’ve spent hours pouring over the photos of...
View ArticlePurely a Purse
I sometimes jokingly say that a homeless person lives in my purse. That’s because there are any number of things in there that would help someone survive in even the most difficult of circumstances....
View ArticleNever-Never Land
This is not a blog about Tinkerbell and Peter Pan. It’s a blog about things that will never happen. At least not to me, or by me. I don’t know where I got this idea but I seem to remember that it...
View ArticlePart 1 – The Price Is Right
As some of you know, this past Tuesday I went to The Price Is Right in Hollywood. It was such an adventure that I had to break the story down into a two-part blog. It all began because somehow I got...
View ArticlePart 2 – The Price Is Right
I left off last week with us being ushered into The Price Is Right studio. Usually I find that a studio is much smaller than it appears on TV. Not the case here. It was much larger. We were rehearsed...
View ArticleBabbling About Baseball
My favorite sport has always been baseball. Having married into a “football family,” which even boasted an uncle who played professionally for the New York Giants in the ’50′s, I had to sort of...
View ArticleClearly Claustrophobic
I went to Long Beach to see the Queen Mary this week. One of my dearest friends was visiting from Kentucky and we had some time to kill, so we went to play tourist. I’ve lived in SoCal for five...
View ArticleLittle Lessons Learned
I am just back from New Jersey where I once again visited my east coast family. As most of you know, my two daughters and six of the grandchildren live there. I’ve tried repeatedly to get them to...
View ArticleTrain Tales
I woke up last night and heard the train whistle. It didn’t wake me, I was already awake…and while I was lying there I realized that almost my entire life I’ve lived near a train. In Queens we were...
View ArticleGraduation Greatness
June brings lots of things: Father’s Day, weddings…and graduations. I had occasion to attend two graduations in the past two weeks and they could not have been at more opposite ends of the spectrum....
View ArticleOf Apparel and Apneas
I am a really healthy person. Thankfully, I don’t get sick very often, but when I do, it’s always an experience. Last week I think I broke all records with medical-related issues, but for now I’ll...
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