Category Archives: Holiday

Heroes come in all sizes

Posted on May 4, 2013 | Leave a comment

What are you up to this fine Saturday?

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Getting yourself a FREE COMIC BOOK????

That’s what I thought.

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Spreading the word

Posted on April 15, 2013 | Leave a comment

boston-marathon-2013-modestoIf you participated in or attended today’s Boston Marathon and saw anything that may be helpful to the police, please call:

1-800-494-TIPS

They are particularly looking for video of the explosion.

If you’d like to donate blood, please contact the Boston Blood Donation Center at (800) 733-2767.  And if you live in the Boston area, police recommend that you return to your homes.

Our thoughts are with you.

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The same, yet different

Posted on March 18, 2013 | Leave a comment

It’s not often I can say this to a member of the royal family:

“Kate, this has so happened to me!”

The Duke And Duchess Of Cambridge Visit the 1st Battalion Irish Guards On St Patrick's DayDuring yesterday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade at the Aldershot Barracks, the Duchess of Cambridge got her high heel stuck in a grate. Husband William offered a supporting arm — and a giggle or two — while she freed her stiletto.

The soldier saluted.

Funny — almost the exact same thing happened to me during a business trip to Chicago!

I was walking with my colleagues to a nearby restaurant for dinner when a grate ate my heel. Two friends held me upright, saving me from an almost certain face plant.  So, let me belatedly salute their heroics –

Sans headpiece.

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Greening my blog (and my dog)

Posted on March 17, 2013 | Leave a comment

Hope you’ve had a fun St. Patrick’s Day…

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We’ve been Dublin over with laughter!

Did I really just say that?

(Yes, I O’Reilly did.)

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Mum’s the word

Posted on March 10, 2013 | 2 Comments

Did you know the Internet was international? Seems obvious, right?

Apparently not to some.

mothering sunday 3.14Today several UK-based celebs have been wishing their mums Happy Mother’s Day.

Dan Stevens, who played the recently deceased Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey.  Chris O’Dowd of Bridesmaid and Girls fame.  But they were quickly corrected by pushy, ethnocentric Americans that “Mother’s Day is still a couple of months away.”

I was at once embarrassed and entertained.

Cable television and the Internet may make programming and actors from other countries available to us here in America, but it doesn’t mean we’re necessarily going learn anything.

Well…at least we’re predictable.

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Be nice to ‘em every day…

Posted on March 8, 2013 | Leave a comment

Celebrate ‘em today!

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Warning: this is very cheesy

Posted on March 5, 2013 | Leave a comment

Time to use your great big noodle,
And celebrate the famed cheese doodle!

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Better than cheesecake or strudel,
The dusty, yummy puffed cheese doodle!

Got yourself a cockapoodle?
Those pups love crunching their cheese doodle!

What’s for lunch? Just oodles and oodles
Of that beloved snack — cheese doodles!

HAPPY NATIONAL CHEESE DOODLE DAY

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The five dollar bet

Posted on February 18, 2013 | Leave a comment

Friends ask if I’ve seen the movie Lincoln. I haven’t.

It feels like homework.

But on this President’s Day holiday, I will celebrate the greatest president in our nation’s history by going to see Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated film.

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A big thank you to AMC Theatres for having a $5 movie special in honor of the holiday.

(That might have tipped the scales a bit in the movie’s favor.)

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No words

Posted on January 21, 2013 | Leave a comment

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He really is ruggedly handsome!

Posted on January 19, 2013 | 3 Comments

My sister and her husband stayed home last night — on a Friday night, no less — to watch the sci-fi classic Serenity starring Nathan Fillion.

It was a gift from me.

Castle Captain Mal

Not the movie itself — I’m sure they caught the film on Netflix or Hulu. No, their fascination with ‘all things Fillion’ started during their Christmas vacation with me here in New York City.

I took them to a Broadway show. To Jazz at Lincoln Center. To movies and restaurants and shops. Santa even visited my apartment.

But the gift that has continued to ‘keep on giving?’  An impromptu Castle marathon on the last day of their trip, when we all agreed that lying on the couch sounded like fun.

The day Lou and Chuck discovered the charms of Nathan Fillion.

Now they are catching up on episodes of Castle and learning all about his past as Captain Mal in Firefly and Serenity.

I love to watch an obsession come together!

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