The year of the pandemic has freed up time for many to reflect on health and happiness. We have learned to focus on what matters most. And, now understand that we are not invincible. Our overall wellbeing depends on our commitment to change and self-care. This TLC is even more important as we age. Nourishing…
Back in 2012, on a whim I started entertaining the idea of going to a dude ranch by myself, somewhere with big open ranges and trails, where they made horses’ well-being a priority. I’m no “City Slicker” as I grew up riding and showing horses until college. I eventually found the Bitterroot Ranch in the…
The Studio Theatre at The Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center– The Villages, Florida is keeping the curtain raised this summer honoring the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage. “Ready to get back to the business of creating and delivering the magic of live theatre.” Whitney Morse, Artistic Director shares the season’s moniker: Well-Behaved Women Seldom…
The San Francisco Film Festival wrapped up Its 2021 program with a screening of the documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street. Good choice SFFILM! Sesame Street, still the gold standard of children’s programming worldwide, was the first racially integrated television show, born out of the mind of Joan Ganz Cooney, inspired by…
The San Francisco Film Festival presented the North American premiere of The Dry, a genuinely entertaining mystery/drama/who-done-it set in a fictional drought-ridden Australian town, a very dry town. The film is based on Jane Harper’s bestseller, starring the eternally handsome Eric Bana as Federal Agent Aaron Falk, returning to his hometown after twenty years to…
Major props to the San Francisco Film Festival for re-inventing the film-going experience in response to the Pandemic of 2021. April 9 – 18, the folks at SFFILM put together an ambitious program combining online and in-person viewing opportunities. As we all know, part of the fun of a film festival is going to the…
KRINGLE: WISCONSIN’S POORLY KEPT SECRETNo matter where you live there’s probably a favorite local food, a treat that expats wax rhapsodic about. Besides being America’s Dairyland, Wisconsinites, known as Cheese Heads, love their cheese (duh), beer, Chubs (fish), and bratwurst. Then there is the Kringle. WHAT THE HECK IS A KRINGLE?Step into the way-back machine…