For the second year in a row, my sister Molly organized a festive night out to attend the Oregon Symphony's Gospel Christmas concert which is a fabulous arm waving, hand clapping night of Hallelujahs, fun for believer and non-believer alike! This year my friend Danni came with me. We drove downtown to meet the rest …
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Air Travel and Air Shopping
We have returned from the honeymoon and I will write a few blogs with pictures to tell you all about it. Consider it a slide show of a trip you didn't go on delivered right to your home, that way you don't have to come all the way to my house for some fondue and …
People and Places NYC
One of my most favorite places in NYC is now Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle Hotel. My mom loved the Madeline books "In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines, the smallest one was Madeline." Or something like that. Mom bought my daughter, Annie, …
Adventures in NYC Arts and Culture
I left off yesterday with lunch at the No Paparazzi Coffee Shop. Today we move on to the Arts and Culture part of Maggie and Lisa's NYC Adventure. Following lunch on Friday, we went to view the Frick Collection. The Frick is a really lovely museum, the art work, the architecture, the furnishings, all beautiful. …
House Plants
When I was a hot, happening teen in the late 70s and early 80s, I had plants in my room. Oh yeah baby, I had plants. I had an African violet, a Christmas cactus, spider plants -- those super cool plants that would grow more spider plants and hung from sweet jute macrame plant hangers. …
An Extra is Born!
This morning I took Annie to her first ever job on a movie set. I don't know who was more excited Annie or me! She is an extra in a movie called The A-List which is filming at her high school. She plays a "High Schooler". She had to bring her High Schooler clothes, electronics …
And Now, the List You Have All Been Waiting For!
Here it is, the list of all the things I HAVE done. I have done half of the things from the original list. My life isn't that exciting and I'm not particularly brave as you know from the Wouldn't Be Prudent List. My point being... whoever wrote this list really should aim higher. 100 Things …
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In the Nudes
I wasn't going to blog today but I felt this was an important story to share. This just happened, just now I was sitting at my desk at work eating lunch and catching up on the news. I read Supreme Court/Obamacare news and then hit the real news.... Lindsay Lohan is off felony probation and …