Category: Christmas

December 24, 2014 /

Christmas reprise — Darlings! It’s that time… Nat King Cole croons carols and a pasta machine finds its way from the back of a cupboard to the kitchen counter…

December 23, 2014 /

“California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, But believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot If you ain’t got the do re mi.” Woody Guthrie

December 23, 2014 /

“Dean’s California–wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.” Jack Kerouac

December 23, 2014 /

“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.” Edward Abbey

December 20, 2014 /

Ave Maria, tune by Franz Schubert, as sung by Luciano Pavarotti in the Latin version, with a muscular Mother and Child by Michelangelo

December 20, 2014 /

Christmas Trees at the Los Angeles Coliseum – 1927

December 19, 2014 /

Christmas Night on Hollywood Blvd. 1930

 

December 18, 2014 /

“What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.” Ava Gardner

December 18, 2014 /

” Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” Ingrid Bergman

December 15, 2014 /

When Christmas Collides With Perimenopause

I bring you tidings of great joy, The Mayo Clinic lists Perimenopause under “diseases and conditions.” Isn’t that lovely? Admiring the feeling of festivity in the air, and the lights twinkling in windows and on pine boughs; I came home after the street lamps were lit to find a Nylon…

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