Category: Story

November 26, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Bogey and Bacall married at Malabar Farms in Ohio – Happy Thanksgiving

November 24, 2015 / Vickie Lester

It’s time for Vickie Lester’s “how to” Hollywood Thanksgiving Dinner

Face it, if you’re serving the feast this year there’s a lot of work to be done. Walk in my door, and you will be directed to the living room with a crackling fire in the hearth. Most likely, The Mister will pour you a beverage and there will be…

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November 23, 2015 / Vickie Lester

The calm before Thanksgiving is about to break…standby for complete recipes and “how to”

When I was a little girl sometimes I would wake and pad down the stairs to the kitchen early on Thanksgiving morning and my mom would already have a 22 pound bird trussed up, stuffed, and ready for roasting. Her face would be rosy, her coffee cup empty, and now…

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November 21, 2015 / Vickie Lester

“Easy Living” — script by Preston Sturges, directed by the marvelous Mitchell Leisen

November 13, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Vickie Lester is still smitten

I caught my first glimmer of love when I was three. It happened in October; brilliant azure skies punctuated by palm trees, bags filled with candy, pumpkins on doorsteps. I was barreling through the house, as fast as my short little legs would carry me, looking for something to eat,…

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November 5, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Quoth I, Vickie Lester, in days of yore we knew not sunblock…

Which yore? Judging from the attire and upturned color I’d say it was the early 1980s. I’m pretending to be my glamorous fashionista aunt, no doubt, chin up, hips turned slightly for the camera. Too bad I wasn’t dressed in a 1950s Dior, but then I never would have made…

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October 31, 2015 / Vickie Lester

…Science, like love, has her little surprises – as you shall see… Dr. Pretorious, in The Bride of Frankenstein

October 30, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Vertigo, a wordless novel in woodcuts by Lynd Ward (1937), father of the graphic novel

October 30, 2015 / Vickie Lester

A Ghost Story by Mark Twain

A GHOST STORY by MARK TWAIN I took a large room, far up Broadway, in a huge old building whose upper stories had been wholly unoccupied for years until I came. The place had long been given up to dust and cobwebs, to solitude and silence. I seemed groping among…

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October 30, 2015 / Vickie Lester

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving

THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington Irving FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky. CASTLE…

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