Tweet In celebration of Earth Day, Design Squad PBS Kids challenges kids five to nineteen to “recycle, reuse, and re-engineer every day materials into an out of the box invention. Your invention should move things or people, protect the environment, or be used for indoor or outdoor play” Top prize to winners? Their inventions will […]
Tweet Ellen Greene! I was so excited to see her because she was one of the most admired successes to the theatre crowd when I was in college at Millsaps. At the time she was starring in Little Shop of Horrors the movie AND the film; which to us theatre geeks was somewhere on the […]
Tweet It seemed charming to keep the vintage GE ovens from 1975 until about an hour ago. The previous owner still had all the pans and rotisserie acoutrements, and I hoped they would continue to plug away, just like my Aunt Sylvia’s are. I’m happy to report that the black smoke billowing out of the […]
Tweet …in spite of having been given peanut butter treats managed to abscond from a tray and devour a foot long turkey sandwich from Subway. In the amount of time it took for me to answer the door he obliterated the Critter’s and my lunch! B@*#ard!
Tweet This is a terrific video explaining the insane festival of St Paddy’s Day that happens in my home town every year. As you also know, I have been posting a lot about children’s television programming lately, and this coincides with the Jim Henson exhibit at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Kermit was the co […]
Tweet I miss the marching parades in New Orleans so much! In the photo (scanned; complete with coffee stains), I am proudly displaying a cabbage I caught from one of the fine gentlemen of the Irish Channel St. Patrick’s Day Club parade in (I think) 1997. I also couldn’t get enough of the ego gratification […]
Tweet The weather today is amazing! My critter is checking out his future alma mater…
Tweet My neighbor for such a beautiful and sustainable landscape
Tweet In the seventies my very glamorous mom would wear Liberty of London scarves with giant sunglasses and frosty lipstick. As a a designer I always loved Liberty prints, and you now see before you an early arrival of the new LoL collection for Target – gorgeous velvet backed double flanged pillows – for 19.99!!! […]
