Presents? Presents!? PRESENTS!!? FOR HALLOWEEN!!? When did this happen? Since when did EVERYBODY give out goody bags filled with not just candy, but gift items? Since when did Halloween last a week? Did someone change the name of the song to the Twelve Days of Halloween? Let’s all sing….”FIVE GOLDEN RING DINGS”. How much candy can we eat? What will I do with the bags of candy that I still have from last year? Since when did my house become all scarecrows, pumpkins, and inedible gourds every October? Why do I only remember one autumn decoration growing up; a pumpkin? How did they make those plastic cornucopia look so real? Why do my kids have to wear two different costumes over the course of four days? Is it the candy that makes us nutty? Just pass me a RING DING and lets all join in chorus.
In a previous blog, “A Runners Wife” I spoke about my husband training for the NYC marathon. All I have to say is that the months of training all came together of an amazing race. Race day is a grueling day for runners, and the family. But a miracle happened...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the senate judiciary committee and basically shrugged when asked if any other enemy combatant captured overseas had ever been brought to civilian criminal court to face justice. Talk about an incompetent boob, not to mention a disgrace.
Here is a list of wines all from Spain, and menus from restaurants in Brooklyn where a crew of us did a food / wine crawl through Carrol Gardens and Williamsburg recently