December 9, 2025

Family Portrait Goes Awry in AI


(Missing from photo is daughter's husband, who is taking the photo)

(Hahahaha!! This is us in AI version. Yikes!! Help.)





 

December 6, 2025

Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Fallingwater” as a Gingerbread House on Steroids

 


Gingerbread houses never looked this good! Forget using M&Ms, mini marshmallows, and gumdrops for the roof, Skittles for the window frames, and candy canes for the shutters. So meh. For the annual Gingerbread House Festival in Orem, Utah, culinary artist Melodie Dearden and her friend Brenton, an architect, knocked it out of the park with their re-creation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Fallingwater."

                        Read more about how they did it and what FLW's great-granddaughter had to say about it. (It's pretty funny.)




December 2, 2025

Getting to Know You: A Rogers & Hammerstein Tribute

There was a wonderful tribute on PBS to composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, celebrating the 80th anniversary of their brilliant collaboration on "Oklahoma." Its unique blend of storytelling through song and dance was a groundbreaking moment in musical-theater history.

It reminded me of my interview with Andy Oscar Hammerstein for BEDFORD MAGAZINE.  

Have a look . . . "Getting to Know You: Oscar Andy Hammerstein III"



A Timely Wine Selection

Beaujolais Nouveau
Reisling 2018
Alhambra-Malbec Reserva 2022
Similac 2025




 

November 29, 2025

Unveiling this ad for the holidays . . .


Everyone's worse nightmare has got to be driving on an interstate highway at 65 mph and having a stroke. My Stroke in the Fast Lane: A Journey to Recovery is a tranformative story as Bonni seeks to reclaim her "magnificent life through humor, grit and defiance." True inspiration for anyone who has ever endured an experience that requires strength to move forward.

            This holiday season, give the gift of hope and resilience.            



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