Hey, Beertender!

This is one of my favorite Christmas presents—ever! It’s also one of the most dangerous. It’s a Beertender. It dispenses Heineken, my favorite, every time you pull the little black lever. It used to sit on the kitchen counter. After I began substituting my 8 glasses of water per day with the beer poured from [...]

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Deli Trays and Martinis

Sorry for going AWOL yesterday. We recently acquired a 3 month-old yellow Lab puppy, Quincy, and I needed to house train her. I’ll introduce Quincy next week. Today, I’m going to introduce my 98-year-old grandfather, Julius Ventura, in a round-about way. Here he is with my mom, another central character to today’s wedding story. On [...]

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Roberta’s Wedding and Uncle Robert

For the past week, I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out how to write about my sister’s wedding. That’s right. After being together for almost as long as thunder and lightening, Roberta and Ellis got married. It was a very small and intimate affair, which is a HUGE accomplishment for our family. We [...]

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Accidentally Funny

I was having my morning coffee, scanning the morning headlines on MSNBC.com when I head a loud thud, the kind you instinctively know is a head-on car collision. I ran downstairs and out the door. The driver of the silver car, a young female driver, was being cared for by a Good Samaritan, and the [...]

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Guilty Pleasures

Guilty pleasures. We all have them. Whether it’s ice cold beer during the summer, hot and steamy Shepard’s pie during the winters, bubble baths, romance novels, and a glass of wine on weekends. They’re there. We can’t deny them. Mine are musicals. I love them. I watch them every chance I get. I blame my [...]

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