VALENTINE’S DAY: JUST ANOTHER WAY AMERICANS HAVE FUN

Valentine’s Day, as it is known where I come from, is another one of our “fun”, or “light-hearted” holidays. While it is interesting to know about the early origins of Valentine’s Day, far more interesting are the ways it has been celebrated in England and America throughout the centuries, and, even much more, how Americans celebrate Valentine’s Day now.

I STILL LOVE JEROME MURAT

I STILL LOVE JEROME MURAT anyway. Oh, horrors! I mean quelle horreur! (I think that is French, but I just made it up, so I could be wrong. Oh well, it looks French, and if I say it, it sounds sort of French, so there you go) What if Jerome Murat is one of those [...]

THE NOTEBOOK: a happy ending or….???

I’ve just had a most interesting experience.  Tonight, on network TV, they were showing “The Notebook”, a movie made from the Nicholas Sparks book by the same name.  I am not usually interested in movies made from books I have read and loved, but, with The  Notebook, it is different, because James Garner is in [...]

LAPD GETS THEIR MAN (finally)

Many thanks to the dedicated personnel of the LAPD for refusing to give up, and for doggedly pursuing their man and, ultimately, bringing him in 26 years later!!! I was alerted to this interesting development in successes by American law enforcement by a Japanese friend who wrote: I cannot believe this!. LAPD finally arrested this [...]

A HAPPY TV ENDING

I used to watch Criminal Minds, but then they got into the twitchy, disgusting, gruesome crimes, and I clicked off the TV. This new season, I am so pleased that I can turn on the TV at 9pm again – I am not totally insane about the Bionic Woman, but, if I need working noise [...]

A HAPPY ENDING

Why do people who are walking in front of you speed up, and/or spread out to cover the entire sidewalk,  when you come up behind them and are going to pass them, and then you have to run to get around them? (Okay, this is a big city problem) A HAPPY ENDING: I passed them [...]

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