Mother’s Day and Other Guilt
Well it’s May, that month again. May, synonymous with spring, baseball and that weird Hallmark holiday – Mother’s Day. OK, really what’s the point here? For me a perfect Mother’s Day starts with NOT having the kids around. Having a day to myself…peace and quiet. Long bubble baths and a day at the bookstore. However, [...]
Read full story...Gwen Stefani – No Doubt, More than Just a Girl
No Doubt the name Gwen Stefani conjures up images. The platinum blonde with the powerful voice was belting out the sarcastic pout “I’m Just a Girl,” back in 1995. Before that, Stefani was just a girl – interested in just routine things. “All I wanted to ever do was get married and have babies… have [...]
Read full story...Spring Forward, Fall Back…Just Let Me Sleep, OK?
Has everyone recovered from our yearly moving of the clock? It seems to me that most people are okay after a day or two…for me, it takes about a month. I see it as jetlag, without the fun travel part, and I don’t like it. Maybe I should move to a state that does not [...]
Read full story...A Moving Experience
There comes a time in your life when you have to face facts. You’re not as young as you think you are. There’s no such thing as Santa Clause, the tooth fairy, or catching up on your sleep… and moving is a bitch. If you really want to face your true demons, pack up and [...]
Read full story...The Brady Bunch Syndrome
Sometimes you’ve got to believe that things happen for a reason. It’s figuring out the reason…that’s the tough part. As far as relationships go, I’d like to believe that people are put into your life for a purpose: either to teach you something, or for you to teach them something, or if you’re lucky, both.
Read full story...Prescription Death: Medicine for the Soul
Prescription death offers their generation a hard pill to swallow; either stand up and claim your individualism or shut up and take your medicine. Every generation throws down a band or two that prescribes to the ideals that set each apart from the other. Youth, politics, freedom, independence and raising your voice, these are some [...]
Read full story...When Good Service Goes Bad
OK everybody, you can come out now, the holidays are officially over. It’s safe. Who doesn’t love spending a little off time with the family? And it’s great to be able to hang out with friends. It’s all good, except for the preparation. I don’t mind the cooking and the cleaning. I just hate the [...]
Read full story...SENIORNET UNLOCKS WORLD OF COMPUTERS 1,000 TO 1,500 STUDENTS A YEAR ARE GETTING CHAPTER AND VERSE IN HIGH TECHNOLOGY THROUGH PROGRAM.
Retired executive Ed Ostrowski, 74, of Delray Beach, gets his intellectual satisfaction from working for an organization that keeps seniors in the technology loop. Since 1995, Ostrowski has been involved with SeniorNet and currently serves as the Boynton Beach chapter’s president. “We teach senior citizens to communicate with their grandchildren by sending e- mail,” he [...]
Read full story...Home for the Holidays
December and January are nothing if not synonymous with the Holidays. Whether it’s Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, or if you chose to side with George Costanza father, Frank, and celebrate Festivus, a holiday for the rest of us, get out the aluminum pole, Christmas tree, menorah, kinara candles and meet me in the next paragraph.
Read full story...ROY CLARK: COUNTRY ICON WHO’S STILL PICK’N AND GRIN’N
Many public schools in America are graced with names such as Kennedy, Roosevelt and Lincoln, respected presidents, maybe even beloved. In Tulsa, Oklahoma there is an elementary school that bears the name Roy Clark, country music icon, actor… and maybe even beloved. After all, in the collective consciousness of a generation, Roy Clark, 73, is [...]
Read full story...‘Tis Almost the Season
Just around this time of year I start longing for home, because nothing comes close to fall like fall in New England. I miss the feeling of fall, the first night when you notice the chill in the air, just enough to grab a blanket for the couch. I miss the smell of fall, fireplaces, [...]
Read full story...MUSICIANS GUILD HITS A HIGH NOTE
Jill Gilbert was shopping when she saw a group of musicians. Taking a seat in the audience, she began to sing along. Before she knew it, she was invited up to sing with the group.
Read full story...It’s All A Game – Who Knew
There are some rites of passage that everyone goes though. Birth, graduation, first kiss, first well, you know, first car-shopping experience. After 98,658 miles, I had to say goodbye to one of my best friends, my Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo. Heartbreaking as that was, it was nothing in comparison to the ordeal of finding a [...]
Read full story...Lorrie Morgan: An Artist Who Imitates Life
If it is said that art imitates life, then what about the artist. For country singer Lorrie Morgan, the lyrics of a stereotypical country song could have been the story of her life. At 47, she has been married five times, currently to fellow country singer Sammy Kershaw. The marriage has not been all love [...]
Read full story...IT’S MUSIC TO THE EARS FROM FOLK, BLUEGRASS, COUNTRY AND WESTERN, ROYAL PALM BEACH GUILD IS UP AND ROLLING ALONG
Jill Gilbert was shopping at the Wellington Mall when she sighted a group of musicians. Taking a seat in the audience, she began to sing along. Before she knew it, she was invited up to sing with the group. Now she’s a member of the Royal Palm Beach Musicians Guild. “It’s fun for me,” said [...]
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