Gosh! It's feels like ages since I've last posted! I just wanted to let you know that I'm still here. I've just been a wee bit busy - socializing. I also want to confess that I've become obsessed with the Showtime series "The Tudors." …
Thoughts of Spring & gardening
Photo: L. Jordan Well, the Chicago temperatures are actually giving us hope for Spring arrival. Usually, I don't get bothered by our Winters but the Winter of 2009 will always be bookmarked in my brain. We went thru a lot this Winter: an epic Presidential Election, Sarah Palin, the thought that McCain might be President, the Recession, and those god awful days of arctic cold and snow. And for me, the lack of work is always a bad thing. Amd I'm not speaking strictly from an economic point of …
Nightclubbing.
I have been feeling a bit down in the dumps lately - the dump being my house. I haven't been going out lately, which as some of you know is a bit unusual for me. It was my usual pattern to finish singing on any given night and then head to one of the four or five o'clock bars for a nightcap and socializing. But since late Summer I have been going home. I was still a night owl though, just not a social one. I thought it was a good thing and for awhile it was. I mean how much partying can a …
The Amazing Adventures of Permanent Lifestyle Change Girl
"Because "The Amazing Adventures of Permanent Lifestyle Change Girl" would sound bloody stupid..." That was the response that the newly published author Shauna Reid gave when one of her blog readers asked her why she named her blog and subsequent book "Diet Girl." Shauna never went on a diet after the first year of Weight Watchers. She lost over 160 pounds. She did it on her own. Just like I did. Twice. …
Everlasting Moments, the movie
I saw a wonderful film tonight. It is entitled: "Everlasting Moments." It is from Sweden, directed by Jan Troell. I guess I should try to explain what the film is about, but I want to say first that it moved me to tears but not because of any sentimental journey, or any great tragedy that occurred in it. I wept for a full two blocks after I left the theater. It was just beautiful - an accomplishment - that was so subtle yet profound in its effect on me. …