All the changes in society (Do you text at the table? Can you check your email in front of people at a cocktail party?) means that we need a Miss Manners for this era, and I volunteer.
I’m okay now, but I was visiting my mother, didn’t feel well and ended up being admitted to emergency surgery at White Plains Hospital and kept there under lock and key for one week.
Have you been receiving those pesky phone calls? The calls where an actual living person tells you our government has selected you as a great, law-abiding taxpayer to receive a refund that very day of $7,466.19.
Nothing, I mean nothing, has been put away. The menorah is still out, the stockings and greens and tinsel — did I say tinsel? — I haven’t used that since I started keeping dogs and cats!
Our Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse offers no end of entertainment for the holidays, and if you have guests bring them, too.
How well I remember the poem I wrote and presented with a dish I brought to another potluck party: We wanted to be festive but were feeling rather frugal. Here’s a dish, it’s not knish, in fact we call it kugel!
Nonna had one of the biggest surprises of her 97 years! Teri and I knew the plan, but on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. my son Chris Clark and my two grandsons, Corbyn, age 10, and Dominic, age 7, showed up at Nonna’s home in White Plains.
Ah sweet mysteries of fruitcake! Holly Nadler has a very interesting theme going on on her Facebook page right now about the best recipes for fruitcake. Betty Burton weighed in with her grandmother’s not so secret recipe that included soaking the finished product in cheesecloth soaked in bourbon, making it at Thanksgiving time and distributing it at Christmas.
Here is my salute back to Woody Williams and all our veterans. Woody emailed a beautiful salute to our Island veterans and all who served. The picture of Woody was great. We all received it on Veterans Day. It made me think of several other Island vets, especially Ed Colligan who was so proud of his service and deservedly so. I hope you took more than a moment on Tuesday to salute and thank and think about our armed services.
