The Twist from a Twisted Sister!

It really is remarkable how everyone's brain and memory works so differently. I never remember actors or singers names. If you say the actors name, I'll put a face with it. But, I always considered myself quite good with quotes or sayings. Maybe it was when I was much younger...

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My Grandmother and my Mom adored Betty Crocker. I can still remember baking my first Chocolate Cake when I was 8. When Mom or I screwed up a recipe my Dad would always say: You're No Betty Crocker!I always assumed she was invented because back in the late 40s and...

At the cost of sounding like a broken records, "It's Serendipity Time Again!" This weeks book club selection was: The Discerning Eye by Carol Orange. It was an interesting romp about a huge art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990. The stolen paintings are estimated to be worth 500...

As a High School teacher, you can imagine the excuses I heard for why homework wasn't done. One of my favorites was when a student brought his dog to class along with his dog bed and lots of newspapers. He wanted the dog to stay in class until the homework...

In the small Ohio town I grew up in, we didn't have any fast food restaurants. The closest we had was Dairy Queen. So when we went to the big city, Lima, we always wanted a hamburger and fries. My Mom's place of choice was Kewpee. (Ever Been?) Note: Kewpee is the second...

My first manager when I worked for Xerox was named Jessica. She was a great manager and taught me so much. We became good friends until I moved to San Francisco and we lost touch. Then out of the blue she contacts me on Facebook. Well, Carol Ann this is...

Let's face it, saying Air Travel is anything but stressful hardly sums up the state of things. Questions about whether your flight will get cancelled or will you get stranded abound. So when my neighbor told me her story, I just couldn't believe it. Sally and her husband traveled to...

I love to set an eclectic table when we entertain. Pre-Covid I set a table that had a different setting for each person and each setting had a story attached. This weekend we are going to a friends house for dinner and she has been stressing out trying to replicate...

Last week I wrote about the 4th Grade Phenom, Andres Valencia, that is setting the Art World on it's ears. If you missed it you can check it all out HERE. So now that all of my shows for the year are over, I'm catching up on all the things I have left...

All of my Artist friends are high fiving one another on the fabulous success of this years 25 Anniversary of Hidden in the Hills!!!! (This is an open studio event that happens every November with 200 artist spread out among 50 studios in the Scottsdale area.) By every measure it was...

This is NOT Political - I promise!!!! So we all know about the Presidential tradition of pardoning Turkeys at Thanksgiving but do you know how it started?Back in 1926 Calvin Coolidge was given a RACCOON for Thanksgiving. The Mississippi giver promised Coolidge a "Toothsome" flavor.  The short story is Coolidge didn't want to appear...

My Aunt's husband was from Arkansas... I didn't get to see the couple much because they lived so far away from Ohio. Yet when I did I especially enjoyed my Uncle who was nicknamed Keko. He cracked me up with his jokes and any joke told with a funny accent was...

I'm always writing about my Dad being such a goofball... and I mean this in the most loving way. He was hilariously funny! So when I read this story about Astronaut John Young taking a Corned Beef Sandwich into space in 1965, I couldn't help but think this was something...

The following story brought back a childhood remembrance I wanted to share with you.... I'm noodling around the Internet looking for a story for this newsletter. I come across "Shark Girl" in Buffalo. It's a cute story about how she has become a social media phenom. You can read the...

Of course we know vanity isn't exclusively a women's trait.... but being vain is certainly directly tagged to women. That is why Carly Simon's hit "You're so Vain" was so shocking at the time because it pinned it to a man. So I thought you would find this Civil War factotum...

At last the heat has broken! I used to think that I was flexible but then Covid hit and the need for being flexible with your schedule vanished. How much flexibility do you need to go to Yoga, Post Office and the Grocery Store?  For a year and half my...

Do you ever read a sentence and just assume you know where it is going? I was reading an article about the Virginia Tobacco Company "importing" women from England in 1621 to Chesapeake Bay for their skills in ----. Wait for it! What comes to your mind first? How many...

We Eat Healthy.... Mostly! We do indulge in guilty pleasures occasionally. (Truthfully, more so during Covid.)  When we were younger, I would make a big juicy burger with French Fries.  Now we changed it to A Beyond Burger.  Good but still sinful!So after 33 years, Hubby explains that he dislikes my...

I took an interesting art class .... It was all about seeing things differently. It's kind of like looking at cloud formations and seeing Jesus's face or animals. Dali's Galatea of the Sphere's is an example: Once you see the woman's face you can't unsee it. So today I thought it would be fun to...