Ok, I admit I know the words to a song from the Shirley Jones musical Oklahoma, how weird is that??? Former roomate Shelly is now living and going to school in upstate New York and the other morning while out to catch her bus she had to play a bit of Crossing Gaurd to prevent [...] Read More

Some impressions of the christmas lights and decoration in the patio. Happy holidays, everybody! Read More

Since the evenings are really cold (even in L.A.), we have quite a few nightly visitors from mother nature. Some of the most faithful creatures are these three racoons who sneak up to Parker’s bowl and eat his cat food for dinner – almost on a daily basis. You can tell they are there by [...] Read More

Val has sent me an fun to answer Christmas questionaire. Cut and paste and send it to your friends to find out their Christmas lowdown! Here are my results! 1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? No doubt about it, wrapping paper! I think gift bags are a little like fruit cakes, they keep being passed [...] Read More

I’ve just returned from 9 unbelievable days in Tuscany and am still trying to get my head back into day to day life, help! Marc, John, Vinnie and Lu and I all rented the most beautiful house in Cortona (after such a long and funny search!!!) spent the days exploring the hills and valleys of [...] Read More

Although there are no happy endings in this book it is sooooo interesting and really makes you appreciate the freedom we have in this country, especially as a woman! The bookclub met at Elizabeths house last Thursday night August 28th where she successfully re-created the delicious Cream of Crab soup recipe we had had in [...] Read More

Smoky chanteuse Diana Krall was at the Hollywood Bowl last weekend and she was incredible! Her opening words to the audience were “Good girl dress, Bad girl shoes”! And in that voice you can imagine how that sounded! She had a great band which she mentioned quite frequently and even stopped to tell the audience [...] Read More