As we move slowly into the holiday season I expect to be ruminating to some extent over the significance of Yuletide, and perhaps to be taking potshots at some of the seasonal inanities. For the moment, however, it’s still this side of Thanksgiving, the harvest festival the pilgrims stole from the I ...
I was a third grader in Mrs. Munyon’s class at Aragona Elementary School in Aragona Village, Virginia Beach, Virginia. On Friday, November 22, 1963 we were interrupted during class by the intercom system. After the characteristic ‘click’ which typically preceded some announcement by the principal or ...
Don't panic, but we've used up almost all the Fridays in 2009. Next Friday is part of the Thanksgiving holiday, December 11th is the first day of Hanukkah, and December 25th is Christmas. This leaves December 4th and 18th - that's it. Just 2 Fridays in 2009 that aren't part of a celebration or obser ...
If you’re a mother or a father, you know that your children mean the world to you and you would do anything to preserve their welfare and their happiness. They are our future astronauts and presidents and just like anyone, they have their own rights too. Today, Nov. 20, is Universal Children’s Day w ...
Her Royal Magesty Elizabeth Regina, the reigning monarch of Great Britain celebrates the 62nd anniversary of her marriage to His Royal Highness Prince Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, today. Though they have suffered more than their share of controversy over the years; the royal couple have ha ...
In the 80s I visited my Navy buddy, the late Jerry R. Landry in his home town of Barnstable, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. It was a glorious few days where he squired me around showing me the various sites. We visited the Kennedy compound … actually the GATE of the Kennedy compound and the landing from ...
I smoked for a number of years starting from about age 17. I started out on Winston — but quickly evolved into quite the ‘Marlboro Man’. I would sneak around in my High School — where gym class was a go to the locker room and smoke cigarettes event — and I engaged in the habit [...]
Today is World Toilet Day, Use Less Stuff Day, and Have A Bad Day Day. If you are anywhere near me, please only celebrate Use Less Stuff Day. Maybe World Toilet Day, depending on how you commemorate it. Is marriage itself illegal in Texas? I'm not just talking about gay marriage. I'm talking about m ...
Photo: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times, from Thanksgiving, an American meal by Charles Perry, November 18, 2009 www.latimes.com Is everyone getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner? I'm going to make a big dish of cranberry cobbler, and maybe some carrot soup, together with the bird and the usual fixin' ...
Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City . They are fun and subversive standing out across from the loop downtown. They embody a dated futurism, which I love. Built when cars ruled. This hulking structure is the Merchandising Mart. Fomerly owned by the Kennedy Family. This building was voted most loved by Ch ...
