We may not have had the most expensive furniture, but it worked for a family with five kids, a stay-at-home mother, and a NYC police officer dad. My parents and me. Even back then I was prone to the snarky side-eye. Even being cross-eyed! I grew up in normal houses. This is ...
The woman is married to and has a 5-year-old son, Mike, with a man who has two children from former marriages. One of those sons, 17-year-old Milo, often stays with them. "Two years ago Milo was in an accident and he had to have his eye removed. He refuses to wear a fake o...
I thought, “That ivy patch has GOT to be LOADED with spiders and their impenetrable webs and ants and centipedes and earwigs and mosquitoes and God only knows what other hellish creatures!” But I knew deep down that I needed to suck it up, put on my game face, and just do it. He...
ON a muggy, maudlin Monday I am sitting in a movie theatre with my best mate from primary school. We are tense with the world and terse with each other. It’s been one helluva year. She’s just survived the challenges of coaxing her son through his final year of high school in a ...
But there was this female Northern Wheatear with a beak full of bugs – clearly she has a nest somewhere near, and kept a very close eye on us. The birds spend the winter in Africa, but in summer they spread out across the rocky places of Europe. Here in Austria they often make ...
BOCA RATON, FL: Evening Star Productions will kick off their newest project, Sol After Dark, with a one-act adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The production, which will run for just three days – from October 26th to 28th –is the first of what Evening Star’s Artistic Director...
shares and commodities. I used to have to suppress a giggle every time I heard someone talking about “pork bellies” as I’d only ever heard the expression in the 1980s movieTrading Places. They asked me to become permanent which coincided with me suddenly needing health insurance so I agr...
Now, I’m not saying this was on purpose, but at the same time, I have to wonder. Doesn’t seem like purely coincidental, either. By now, movie makers know what effect movies can have on the public (there are plenty of examples, but Jaws screwing with beach communities comes to mind...
The four humans and two cats were in the parlour watching a movie. This was an unusual occurrence, practically a special occasion. We don’t have a TV and there’s a certain amount of arranging that has to happen: cobbing together Saint George’s laptop (the only one with a DVD drive...
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