I was scanning the news on AOL last night – yes, AOL, I’m that old. And the news was either about someone who just died of the bubonic plague here in America, the flash flooding that killed so many children, then a story about a lady named Laura Sanchez carrying a $5700 purse in Paris.
So I turned off the news and started to play a game on my iPad. The world may be going to hell in a hand basket, but I don’t have to watch.
I am decidedly unmusical. I can’t sing. I don’t listen to music. And, despite my mother’s best efforts in giving me piano lessons, I have absolutely no musical talent.
But the Bonanza theme… ah, the Bonanza theme. I bought the sheet music and learned to play it. I would then play and sing at the top of my lungs. Remembering that our living room was right on top of the store where mom and dad were trying to make a living for us, I have to hope that sound – like heat – travels up. If not, we may have Continue reading →
I have been re-watching this show. I had forgotten how much I had grown up in that family. I actually think the writers must have been hiding in closets in my childhood family homes and just copied down the dialog they heard. Because, swear to god, some of the talking on the show came right from those houses.
And yes, for anyone who doubts it, the first thing every Italian mother will ask you when you enter her house is whether you are hungry and want something to eat. And there will always be something delicious on the stove ready Continue reading →
On a personal level, I like Lisa Murkowski. But she should be ashamed of herself for her vote on that Big Beautiful piece of crap she voted for in the senate. She could have made the difference but she chose to duck and hide and vote with the other lemmings… all following our democracy off the cliff.
So sad. She had a chance to do the right thing. As our schools are starved and health care eliminated for some of the most needy in our country, I have to wonder how she can hold her head up. How can she Continue reading →