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Friday Musings: Empower Me

Friday Musings: Empower Me

Yesterday was International Women’s Day, a celebration around the world of all that we are and all that we accomplish as women. It also marked two months since that icy night in January that changed everything for me so much. But who’s counting? I am, quite honestly. I’m so happy to report that I’m finally beginning to feel better, to feel like I’m healing, and to feel like I’ve been put back together again, both physically and emotionally. Those of you who really know me and who’ve witnessed this process,

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Wednesday Shakespeare: A.K.A. Robin Goodfellow

Wednesday Shakespeare: A.K.A. Robin Goodfellow

Quite a few years ago one of my nieces lived in New York City up on 108th Street. There was a park close by that hosted Shakespeare productions during the summer. I was visiting with my kids and my sister-in-law one night when we decided to wander over for a walk after dinner. We found ourselves in the middle of a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and felt as though we had been transported into some kind of a magical world. If you don’t remember the how the plot of the play goes,

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Friday Musings: The Buttons on Your Blouse (repost)

Friday Musings: The Buttons on Your Blouse (repost)

I’m down with the flu so I’m reposting one of my favorite Friday Musings from January of 2017 that has great meaning for me right now. I’ll be back on Monday with a new Booktails post.

One of the saddest, most beautiful songs I know was written by Warren Zevon just before he died in September of 2003. It’s the last track on his final album, The Wind, and it’s clear that Zevon intended it to be a goodbye song. He knew he was dying. In fact, he was so ill at the time he recorded it, that

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Wednesday Shakespeare: You Are My Muse

Wednesday Shakespeare: You Are My Muse

Today I’m taking just a bit of liberty with my Shakespeare theme and writing about one of my favorite Valentine’s Day movies, Shakespeare in Love. If you’ve never seen it, then you absolutely must. Tonight, if you can. Or this weekend. Plan a date around it. It’s intelligent and sweet and beautifully shot, and it has, hands down, some of the most romantic lines about love ever spoken. The film tells the tale of an imaginary love affair between William Shakespeare and Viola de Lesseps, played by

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Monday Booktails: Fog Cutter

Monday Booktails: Fog Cutter

For my third and final cocktail from Smuggler’s Cove by Martin and Rebecca Cate, I decided to go with the Fog Cutter, one of the drinks they have listed in a special section called Eight Essential Exotic Elixirs. In a book with over 300 pages packed with recipes and everything you could possibly want to know about tiki drinks, this would have been a difficult chapter to pass up. The Fog Cutter makes the list along with fellow classics like the Mai Tai, the Zombie, and Planter’s Punch. So what made me

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