It has been a long time since I wrote about New Years Resolutions, mostly because I don’t make them. I have no interest in coming up with ways to better myself, then failing and feeling even worse.
General craziness
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This post comes at the request of a friend. Once he heard that my birthday was Christmas Eve, and realizing that I am Jewish, he wanted to know how that worked growing up. It is pretty simple, as I explained: I never suffered. As an only child and an only […]
Last year, as I reached a – ahem – milestone birthday, we were also in the process of moving out of a house we lived in for thirteen years, and into a new house. Needless to say, the birthday was not so exciting. We did manage to have a nice […]
I have been away for nearly a week. I am pretty sure that by now my husband has taken over the entire bed and my dog has forgotten who I am. But I have been having a good time sailing around the Caribbean aboard the Crown Princess. Upon my return […]
This is the time of year where we tend to chop down a whole bunch of trees and decorate them. I have no issue with that (and am looking forward to my very first tree trimming party this weekend. But when the folks at Green Gestures said they wanted to […]
Recently I did not feel like a big dinner (I know – it shocked me, too), so I thought happy hour would do the trick. We went out to the best happy hour in Key West, Alonzo’s Oyster Bar. From 4-6:30 every day all drinks and appetizers are half off. […]
I don’t sing in public. Wait. Let me rephrase that. I don’t sing in public with a microphone. I will, however, gladly sing along to a piano player, or muzak, or whatever at the top of my lungs if I have a few cocktails. But I certainly don’t do karaoke. […]
Only in Key West… We are fortunate to have some very good friends all over the world. Many of them lead a very lovely 2.5-kids-and-a-white-picket-fence kind of life. In Key West, however, we have an inordinate number of friends who either have grown children, or have opted out of the […]
Just in time for your holiday shopping, Abigail Houff has opened up shop. Gilded Peach is a lovely boutique filled with unique jewelry and gift items.
As I am still comfortably settled in with my food coma, I thought this would be a good time to recap all of the great food last night. Family, friends and a yummy dinner made it all fabulous. Any good dinner party starts with the wine, and last night’s was […]