Happy 1st Heavenly Birthday to an Extraordinary Mother

 

Our Favorite New Year's Day Baby. Here we are celebrating

Mom's 80th Birthday at LYC.

My mother will be forever remembered for 1. Saving my life when she grabbede the steering wheel as I had a stroke on I-95 and 2. Her inimitable style, grace, sense of humor, wit, wisdom ... wait, that's 3, 4,5 ... I could go on for eternity.

Among the many words received the past few days: "She was always, among other things, our favorite dinner guest. Betty made the room come alive," "Bonni, you are blessed having your mom as your guardian angel. Cherish the memories!" and "She was a true hero."

    

Happy First Heavenly birthday, Mom!  <3

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.)

 

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.)

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