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Life 101 – Craft box

While making my Valentine cards, I realized that every house should have a craft box, and the winter is the perfect time to put one together. I keep my crafts-from glue gun to glitter- in a variety of vintage wooden toolboxes that I found at garage sales. Having the craft supplies out and readily [...]

Life 101 – Bruce’s tips for beating the winter blues

Every winter as the snow piles up, we all start getting what I call “wacky shacky” (bug-eyed hysteria from being holed up in the house.) I’m sitting here right now day-dreaming about working in my garden! So, I thought I’d share a few of my Life 101 ideas to beat back the doldrums of [...]

Christmas History – Mistletoe

My friend singer Ann Osmond gave me some mistletoe the other night. (“With fake berries ’cause real berries are poisonous.”) And I looked up the history of Mistletoe. It dates back to Pagan solstice festivals and was once believed to have magical powers of life and fertility because of its ability to remain green [...]

Pet fun – Dogs decorating

If you’re thinking about getting a pet for the holidays, Westminster and I want to encourage you to adopt. I found him in a rescue van outside the Westminster Dog Show 5 years ago and my life was happily enhanced. The Best Friend Animal Society is the country’s largest no-kill sanctuary and has amazing [...]

What I’m Doing – Bruce in New York Times

Photograph by Marilynn K. Yee for NY Times

Sunday’s New York Times featured a story by Vivian Toy about the conundrum faced by buildings in New York City in holiday decorating. It is a Herculean effort to be fair and balanced to the variety of beliefs. The piece, The Tinseling of the Lobby, featured [...]

What I’m Doing – Bruce on Cindy Dole’s Home Wizards

I love being on Cindy Dole’s Home Wizards on LA News Talk 980. Cindy is a home, garden and lifestyle expert that believes “home improvement IS life improvement!” She always has great ideas and a sense of humor and our segments are always FUN. For this episode, Cindy and I talked Christmas, everything from [...]

Catch me on CBS EARLY SHOW

Oh, those lights!

Let’s talk lights! Lighting the tree is one of those things that can divide families. Any divorce court judge will privately tell you “Irreconcilable differences” really means “light fight.” First, there’s the white or colored debate. Then, there’s technique: stringing or strangling. Then, just as you kiss and make up beneath [...]

American Icons – Rockefeller Center Tree

Try stringing five miles of lights!

One of my favorite New York traditions is the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. This year’s tree, a 12-ton, 74-foot Norway Spruce, was cut from the Mahopac, NY, backyard of Peter Acton, a New York City firefighter and September 11th first responder. The majestic beauty [...]

Household tips – Remote control pillow

Looking for that special gift for the friend who has everything? Well, I bet they don’t have this! It’s Brookstone’s Remote Control Pillow. Here to solve a need you didn’t know you had! Oh, wait, it promises you’ll never lose the remote again or get it lost in the cushions. Because it is the [...]

American Icons – Barbra Streisand

Duck Sauce has a Top 10 hit in Europe with the song Barbra Streisand. I like it! The lyrics are two words “Barbra Streisand.” It’s apparently all you need if you’re the only artist ever to receive Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Endowment for the Arts, and Peabody [...]

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