In a café, I overheard two woman talking about having spent the morning untying string from pigeons’ feet. Wha? I broke into their conversation. “Who would do that to pigeons?” I asked. They explained that often birds step into litter and aren’t able to step out of it. And birds (shiver) are sometimes targets of […]
We can all use good wishes.
All through my children’s toddlerhood when they couldn’t wait to drink anything with a skull and crossbones on it, I had to call poison control for myself. I had left a solution of Biotene mouthwash in a glass to remind myself to swish my teeth between meals. Well, hours later I come home in need […]
“I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself,” Woody Guthrie wrote. And that’s why the audience was singing, clapping, laughing, crying. DAVID LUTKEN who plays a tender, agile, poignant Woody, helped devise this musical along with NICK CORLEY, DARCIE DEAVILLE, HELEN JEAN RUSSELL & ANDY TEIRSTEIN. It’s closing this Sunday in New […]
I was in the diner the other day when a woman, purple-faced, began screaming because her check was $1.50 over what she thought it would be. Turned out that she didn’t figure in that her egg white omelet cost more than a regular one. Then, on TV, I see folks in Texas wading, waist-deep in […]