“OMG! They’re not all dead already!” That was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the advertisement for “Herman’s Hermits, starring Peter Noone,” performing with the also not-dead Micky Dolenz, the lead vocalist of the former Monkees. The website...
I just returned from two full weeks of “me time.” It’s a tradition I started 16 years ago, and I’ve only missed two June Escapes since I made self-care a top priority. Sixteen years ago, a counselor suggested I needed to invest in myself by going to a recovery center...
“You don’t write your resolutions on January first,” Julie informed me. “You write them on your birthday. That’s the true start of your New Year! Great idea. Julie always had a lot of great ideas. Some of them were a little dangerous, possibly illegal in a few states,...
On this date in 1992, Vice-President Dan Quayle publicly embarrassed himself in front of rolling television cameras when he instructed a student writing on a blackboard during an elementary school spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey, to “add one little bit to the end”...
I’m not an official Royal Watcher, but I do take an interested peek at them now and again. My grandmother on my mother’s side hailed from Wookey Hole, England, and it was always rumored by my mother that Grandmother and the Queen “were just like that.” (Imagine my...
