Have you met anyone who doesn’t like Paris? I love Paris. What’s most amusing about this statement is, I hate to say this, I’ve never been to Paris. France, yes, but somehow Paris remains elusive. For me, it’s a love affair experienced second-hand through books, magazines, and people. Every day I read eletters from International [...]
In the past, now and then, I’d read inspiring writings written about Thomas Paine. And now as I walk around Phila, I wonder why, since he served as the first Secretary of State for Pennsylvania, I find no statues of him, and plenty of everything on behalf of Benjamin Franklin. When delving into this matter, [...]
Oops! No post here on Father’s Day. How can that be when so frequently I look around and admire all the fathers attending to their children. It’s never too late to write about this big wonderful change. When did this happen that men are sharing parenting big time? Of course, there always have been great [...]
It’s impossible to get through the day without hearing or reading something about detoxifying, at least in my world it’s that way. Today aol had a blurb on Oprah’s 21-day detox, and mention of her daily posts on her blog. It rang a bell because I’m preparing for another cleansing session – the benefits are [...]
Have you spent time with a two-year old recently? The days are amusing, simple, fun – once needs are filled. I stayed with two-year-old Sebastian last week when Alicia and Michael flew to the Bahamas. They had the perfect vacation, and well, Sebastian and I did, too. We got to know one another better. The [...]
I’ve got something for you that’s even better than the best of the best of chocolate cakes, or creme brulee, or homemade papaya sorbet, or, okay I’ll stop, – in the form of websites that you just might find informative, enlightening, inspiring. Come on, give them a whirl. Here they are, just a few – [...]
Because there’s a lot of concern for the environment, and many concerns about the quantity of plastic bottles accumulating, and concerns about the shorebirds and fish dying “with bellies full of plastic pellets,” Bottled Water BACKLASH by Melissa Knopper, www.emagazine.com, it’s beginning to seem that we should help our environment and save our money by [...]