There’s an old song from 1927, “I’ve danced with a man who’s danced with a girl who’s danced with The Prince of Wales”? I can make a similar claim, although several degrees removed from The Prince of Wales. My friend MaryAnne’s nephew is Brad Goreski, a stylist-to-the-stars and TV personality who is joining The Fashion Police beginning January 11th. Brad grew up in Port Perry,…
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Message received . . . and published
An article by Emma Teitel in the December 22, 2014 issue of Maclean’s magazine about smoking in outdoor patios got my back up so I wrote a letter to the editor stating my case. And, they must have thought my comments were worthy of sharing as they published excerpts in their January 15, 2015 issue. In fact, they even took one of my comments as…
Two views of “Unbroken”
Movie versions of great books are usually not as good as the book. A two-hour movie cannot always capture the nuances of feelings or the descriptive words and phrases in the same way that make the book so engrossing, or the amount of detail required to truly tell the story. Last week we went to see the movie “Unbroken” and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute…
A Boomer Broad goes to Paris
In 2012 I read a small ad in Zoomer magazine advertising a women’s tour of Paris that sounded like something worth investigating. When I did, I ended up taking the trip in October of that year and it was wonderful. I received an e-mail from Kathi Oliver, the organizer, this week and thought I’d share it with my Boomer Broad readers because the trip was…
Beware: Some pet treats can kill
It took awhile but some pet stores in Canada are finally pulling pet treats imported from China from their shelves. I’ve mentioned the dangers of these products in previous blogs and there has been ample evidence of their dangers covered by consumer television programs but pulling of these products should have happened years ago. Pet owners and veterinarians have reported cases of pets suffering kidney…
From Russia with love and deception
My interest in Russia and its people probably began when I first viewed Dr. Zhivago in English with Dutch subtitles in an Amsterdam movie theatre in October 1967. The music was haunting. The history is stark, brutal and complex. So, when I heard Peter Pomerantsev, author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia being interviewed by Judith…