My best friend, Becky and I had gone to seeThe Nutcrackertogether every year before, but not this year. Going to the ballet was my favorite holiday tradition. I loved the dancing, the costumes, and especially the music. I worried that it wouldn’t feel like Christmas withoutThe Nutcracker....
One of the main attractions is the mirror fountain Path of Silence by Jeppe Hein (remember to bring a change of clothes for the kids!) The amazing sculpture-like museum building itself, The Twist, which doubles as a bridge over the river, is worth the trip in itself!
When Mary and Abraham Lincoln moved into the White House in 1861, Mary was 42 years old, a time when women her age dressed in somber grays, dull browns, and boring blues. But not Mary Todd Lincoln. For her, expensive clothes were a mark of importance, of breeding. She proceeded to dr...
My mother whispered assurances that Ella was not going to die. I kept crying. She then excused us from our table and I followed her into the Powder Room. She sat me on a chaise lounge and wiped my tears. The expansiveness of the Powder room, compared to the ones today, was like bein...
When Mary and Abraham Lincoln moved into the White House in 1861, Mary was 42 years old, a time when women her age dressed in somber grays, dull browns, and boring blues. But not Mary Todd Lincoln. For her, expensive clothes were a mark of importance, of breeding. She proceeded to dr...
While some household items help turn a big cardboard box into a toy stove or dollhouse, smaller toys, including stuffed animal furniture and rocket ships, are easy to make. Kids can even create amini foosball tablefrom a cardboard shoebox, ping pong balls, clothespins, and tiny ...
For me over the past week, that has taken the form of Daily Offices, running, watching the birds in the garden, reading Henry James, a Monteverdi concert, and a splendid evening of Balanchine works by the Pacific Northwest Ballet. I have also been fasting from political news, limiting myse...
For example, there is folk dancing, ballet dancing, and modern dancing. Modern dance, which began in the early 1900s, is a very expressionistic dance. Modern dancers follow no set pattern. Rather, they create their own movements to match the feeling they are trying to express. But modern ...
Given that it looks like we’re facing highs in the mid-50’s from here on out, I decided this past weekend was as good as any to put my Spring and Summer clothes back into storage (i.e. hang them in the guest closets) and move my Fall/Winter wardrobe back to front and center....
With the exception of the pro-dancers, the sultry faced young women had no abs either, but flabby bellies for their age which tend to accompany the typically enlarged thighs and short calves of an unconditioned, or as the ballet master said, "undeveloped" body. See it for yourself in ...