Category Archives: Life 101

Dinner Party Talk – For your weekend

Cheers, baby! It’s an epidemic! Last week, a baby got soused on a margarita at a Michigan Applebee’s. Then, a Florida two-year-old got drunk on sangria at Olive Garden. Now comes word that a four-year-old at a Chicago area Chili’s … Continue reading

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Holidays – Easter

Have you boiled your “Spring Spheres?” Made your over-the-top bonnet? Unpacked one of last year’s 700 million Peeps? I’m busy planning which part of the chocolate bunny I’ll bite off first. Of course, there’s a poll: 76% of Americans bite … Continue reading

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Dinner Party Talk – For your weekend

Cuckoo. This week it’s all about the crazy. Indiana bananas. Police in Indianapolis have arrested a 36-year-old mom and 58-year-old dad, Rose Faucet and Phillip Hester, for attempting to sell their baby girl to a convicted child molester and his … Continue reading

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Gardening – Koi Pond duty

I’m smiling not because I like it, but because it’s over. Taking the netting off the koi pond each year is always filled with heartache and slime. Heartache because we sometimes have lost one or two, and slime because the … Continue reading

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What I’m Doing – Publisher’s Weekly

Westminster and I were happy to wake up this morning to a gorgeous day in NY & an amazing review in Publisher’s Weekly for The Bedtime Book for Dogs. If you would pre-order a copy on Amazon or Barnes & … Continue reading

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Dinner Party Talk – For your weekend

Happy news. “Ban,” the dog found floating on the roof of a house more than a mile off the Japanese coast, has been reunited with her companion. Weird news. News came out this week that Bristol Palin was paid $262,000 … Continue reading

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Gossip! – Bruce in NY Daily News

I swam into the Shark Tank and got eaten alive. Well, at least I lived to tell about it and read about it… Today, NY Daily News’ Gatecrasher column had a fun item about the launch party for Shark Tales, … Continue reading

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American Fun – Bald eagle cam

If you’re a bird voyeur, you’ll love the Bald Eagle nest cam on Ustream Live. A pair of Bald Eagles have set up house at a fish hatchery in Decorah, Iowa, and Big Brother has nothing on this. One of … Continue reading

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Dinner Party Talk – For your weekend

Joke’s on him. A group of seven state employees in Albany hit the recent $319 million Mega Millions jackpot! But, then, there was the eighth guy, the one who usually played, but… just had an unlucky feeling about this one. … Continue reading

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Holidays – April Fools!

You know how all this “April Fool” insanity came about? Ancient cultures used to celebrate New Year’s Day at the vernal equinox, thus the Julian calendar designated April 1 as New Year’s Day. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered adoption … Continue reading

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