[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpTbJ6pAaFk No, this isn’t a favorite song and you don’t need to wear your sunglasses at night, but it is a public service reminder to wear your sunglasses during the day. Most of us are very conscious of using sunscreen but do you always remember to protect your eyes? Recently I went in for my…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0v7e3e7toURecently I asked a group of seventeen-year-olds whether any of them had ever heard of Tom Petty. They just stared at me.
The bright light in the picture is one of my newest purchases, a reaction to a power outage we had last week. The power went out in the part of town I live in around 3pm on a weekday. It happened to be the hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures over 100f…
Pretty soon, I’ll be packing up my bags and moving again. This time last year, I was on my way to Mobile, Alabama. Now, I’m off to Nashville, Tennessee. First, let me assure you: I have no aspirations to be a country music star. Quite the opposite, actually; I am extremely picky with country music. …
Next weekend, I will be travelling to Berlin for the first time in years. After procrastinating for several months, a few days ago I finally called an old friend whom I hadn’t talked to in about three years. We used to live the same town and shared the same workplace, but then she moved to…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4EZULqhP2E&feature=relmfu My love for Pixar movies has built very gradually – I was a relatively late bloomer, since the early ones didn’t impress my socks off. But “The Incredibles” was a revelation, and ever since the new Pixar movie in June has become a must-see. (I made an exception for “Cars 2” – I’m not…
Years ago, during a particularly hot summer spell, a friend told me about her favorite hot weather snack. She would clean a bunch of seedless grapes, put them in Ziploc bags, and freeze them. I was a bit skeptical, but gave it a try. Wow! I was instantly hooked on frozen grapes. They’re a bit…
While on vacation I had the chance to watch a couple of films that were favorites from the 80’s. Both are movies I loved enough to have seen multiple times, going so far as to own them on DVD. Both are films I haven’t picked up in at least (gulp!) eight years. It was funny…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJdgSRzv8wEThis is one of the songs about which I can’t really explain why they stick to my brain the way they do. It’s incredibly ’80s in the almost negligent way it’s presented. I still haven’t figured out what it’s about. I don’t know any other songs by Tanita Tikaram.
I’m an admitted handbag junkie. I own probably fifty, with ten or so being heirloom bags that I’ll pass on to my daughter. Unfortunately I hate them all. For years I let fashion determine what type of bag I carried and presently I have a closet full of very nice bags that I refuse to…
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