Archive for the HOLIDAY Category
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HOLIDAY: HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY This one will be short and sweet because I have to go pack to fly to New York on Mother’s Day to see my own little mother! Shamefully, I haven’t spent that day with her since 1994, so I’m really excited to do it this
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HOLIDAYS: HAPPY EARTH DAY…AND EASTER
HAPPY EARTH DAY…AND EASTER This is weird for me--I actually really dislike words that begin with “e” (seriously--they make me a tad queasy,) and here I am, wishing you two of them!!! Oh well. So, today is Earth Day, a relatively new
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HOLIDAY: HAPPY PASSOVER
HAPPY PASSOVER I just want to wish a Happy Passover to all my readers who celebrate it. It’s one of my favorite holidays for many reasons, including the delicious special once-a-year foods, of course!!! I realize that those of you who are
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HOLIDAY: HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! This is one “holiday” that is neither painful to me nor particularly fabulous. I haven’t had any awful ones, knock on wood, like I have with birthdays, anniversaries, and New Year’s Eves. They’ve all been jus
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MISCELLANEOUS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! AGAIN, KNOCK ON WOOD!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! AGAIN, KNOCK ON WOOD! This is actually a very hard birthday for me because it’s the first one in very many years that I’ll wake-up without getting birthday kisses from my beloved Clarence. (Actually, hopefully, I’ll
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NEW YORK: NEW YORK TRIP WRAP-UP
NEW YORK TRIP WRAP-UP With snow once again blanketing the east coast, (but with me warm and dry back in Los Angeles,) I figure this is a good time to tell you about all the elements I encountered in the last month in New York. (BTW--I’m not
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HOLIDAY: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010-2011
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010-2011 Mr. X and I are in the New York blizzard right now, enjoying time with my little mo, which I’ve rarely ever done in December or January. But I figured it was a good place to rest up for my January 14th birthday, alth
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HOLIDAY: MERRY CHRISTMAS!
MERRY CHRISTMAS! I’m currently in Brooklyn to enjoy the holidays with my little mother for the first time since I left home as a teen-ager. (Not as a protest--just for summer travel, but when I found L.A., I never went back.) I just could
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HOLIDAY: THANKSGIVING 2010
THANKSGIVING 2010 I was shocked to discover that I haven’t written a Thanksgiving column for this site in the previous two years of its existence. I always did for my columns in the Culver City News and the Blue Pacific News, but somehow, I
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PARTIES: DOWNTOWN L.A. HALLOWEEN PARTY
DOWNTOWN L.A. HALLOWEEN PARTY For those who missed it yesterday, I’m back from my month in New York, and raring to go. I have all kinds of fun stuff to tell you about from there, mainly restaurants, of course, but I made a point of getting b
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