Dec. 4 Dance of the Sugar Plum Duppy
In Vera Nazarian's book, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration, she writes "The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of...
Dec. 3 Island Fruitcake
Legendary island-life aficionado, Jimmy Buffet, once said "There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us." Maybe he's saying...
Dec. 2 Scrooge McDaiq
There are many things about the holiday season which bring to mind joy and celebration, laughter and cheer. Charles Dickens even wrote...
Dec. 1 The Isle of Misfits Toys
"Well, we're a couple of misfits from Christmastown, and now we'd like to live here," Rudolph told the King. "No, that would not be...
Day 237: Cape of Good Fear
On the morning of March 17, 2020 our way of living as we knew it changed forever, but we had no idea just how much it would change or for...
Surf Pearl
Once in an interview, surf rock legend, Dick Dale, was quoted saying "I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard." That line...
Dream a Little Dream
“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.” -Langston Hughes Hello my thirsty readers. I seem...
Very Nice Things
This is America, land of the theoretically free, home of the abundantly incompetent. The selfishness we've seen lately, has only lowered...
Day 100: The Time Has Come
"All good things must come to and end." We first read this phrase in the Geoffrey Chaucer poem, Troilus and Criseyde. Originally written...
Day 99: The Other Side
"The noblest art is that of making others happy." I don't know why, but certain quotes and lines stick with us longer than others. This...
