Author Archives
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The White House New Year’s Day Reception: Good Riddance to a Miserable Tradition
Resolutions, college football bowl games, parades, gym renewals, and January first’s first-born child: New Year’s Day customs give people hope, happiness or distraction. Swollen feet, pneumonia and confrontation do not. Which explains the silent death of the legendary White House… Read More ›
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The Yeager Fund for Special Need Dogs Who’ll Never Be Adopted
Today, 2011’s last business day for tax-deductible charitable contributions I’m compelled to ask as many people as possible to take 45 seconds, click to a link and to PayPal and help keep alive and healthy some gentle, loving Dogs with… Read More ›
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Old-School New Year’s Day Food: From the South, North or Midwest – its Imported
Holidays, as celebrated throughout the United States, are closely tied to annual feasts of traditional foods. Thanksgiving has its turkey and pumpkin pie, Christmas its goose, Hanukah its fried potato pancakes, St. Patrick’s Day is usually marked with plates of… Read More ›
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More Photos From the 2011 White House Christmas Party (Part II)
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Three Yeager the Weimaraner Singing Christmas Hat Videos
It’s somewhat ironic that someone who once was bewildered by people who plastered their work stations with snapshots of their red-eyed dogs, pooches, cats and kitties would have so eagerly become a personal photographer and videographer to his late, great… Read More ›
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The White House Christmas Party in Rare Photo Glimpses
If a picture is worth a thousand words, here is a small book’s worth of stories about what one glimpses in the White House when one’s lucky enough to be among the few thousands of guests invited to the President’s… Read More ›
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Sartre to Snookie: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. Everything has been figured out except how to live. Sartre Life is tough enough. Might as well do the easy… Read More ›
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Evita to Elvis: Facebook of the Famous
Evita Peron – Juan Peron – Nicolea Ceauşescu – Jimmy Carter – Elvis Presley Born Eva Duarte but globally renowned as “Evita,” the First Lady of Argentina (1946-1952) initially found fame as a stage actor, model, film actor and… Read More ›
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Update: Christmas Crazy Target Lady Sings “The Santa Rap”
How I missed including this one of the Christmas Crazy Target Lady (aka Christmas Champ as Target titles her ) I don’t know, but it’s too good to just insert into the longer article about her in the previous post,… Read More ›
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The Christmas Crazy Target Lady: Official Symbol of Black Friday
Cupid symbolizes Valentine’s Day. Easter has its Bunny. And now its official: The Crazy Target Lady is Black Friday. Since 2009, Target has well-targeted those shoppers anticipating the big holiday sales who skip Thanksgiving to stand in line for upwards… Read More ›
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