Watched Pieces of April the other night and it is utterly fantastic. I’ll tell you my hopes were not so high but Katie Holmes rose above Dawson’s Creek–she was sublime! And Patricia Clarkson is just to die for. All-in-all it is just an excellent movie with April’s disenfranchisement from her family representing the settlers in the New World (they are such fuck ups! how … Read More Thanksgiving movies
As if we all weren’t depressed enough over the election, now we have the holidays to contend with–bah! bah! humbug: Many factors can cause the “holiday blues”: stress, fatigue, unrealistic expectations, over-commercialization, financial constraints, and the inability to be with one’s family and friends. The demands of shopping, parties, family reunions, and house guests also contribute to feelings of tension. People who do not … Read More Yay! It’s the holidays!
Around Us by Marvin Bell (note: I am swooning over this poem!)
Yesterday, I reread pieces of John Berger’s And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos. It is a book I come back to again and again. I first learned of it maybe in 1992 when a boyfriend of mine transcribed one of the poems within and included it in a letter he sent me: My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone … Read More And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Every year I buy a carton of eggnog and it sits in my fridge unopened until sometime in January or February when I bring it to the dump. Why? Because eggnog is disgusting. Even the name is gross. And yet I am intrigued–read on: Eggnog! – History: Other experts would have it that the “nog” of eggnog comes from the word “noggin”. A noggin … Read More A brief history of eggnog
I’m hosting Thanksgiving this year. My first time hosting it, ever. I cooked my first turkey last Christmas and it was not pretty (don’t ask me how you can screw up a turkey. All I can say is that when it came time to carving it, it was something of a bloodbath). Anyway, I’m scouring the net looking for advice and I found this … Read More Into the Woods YANKEE’s Guide to a Naturally Wonderful Thanksgiving
Sam Shepard’s new play, The God of Hell, opened off-broadway yesterday and it is getting raves. It sounds as though, Shepard, in typical fashion, has his eye on the real America and not the hype we are fed through the media (from usatoday.com): The American heartland that Sam Shepard has evoked in his plays is very different from the one that politicians tend to … Read More The God of Hell
Hail Mary, full of cheese, the miracle whip is with thee. Blessed art thou among sandwiches, and blessed is the heat of thy grill. Holy Mary, Mother of Reuben, pray for us dieters now, and at the end of our lunch hour. Amen. (Special, special thanks to my husband Allen who not only sent me the link but rewrote the prayer. He’s a keeper!)
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