By Musette the Insensate I’m reading Diane Ackerman’s “The Zookeeper’s Wife”, a story based on the actions of Antonina and Jan Zabin’ski who managed to save over 300 otherwise doomed people during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Reading Diane Ackerman… Continue Reading
Whew! 2011 is nearly over and I still don’t have my Escape limo and I have NO idea where Woody Harrelson is right now. Better hustle!!! But – we still have a few days so let’s take a look back… Continue Reading
by the Stuffed-to-the-Gills Musette So…the frenzy of Christmas (in the US) is done. Whew! Ours was very quiet, which was great. I have spent way too many years stressing myself into a spasm over the… Continue Reading
In my many, jumbled boxes of photos lie many, many photos of rivers. Most of them are bends. I have always loved bends in rivers – even if you pass that bend several times a day, if you allow… Continue Reading
Salome, I always wondered how it must’ve felt to have someone (a king!) lust after you so hard that they would do anything you ask, if only you would dance the dance of The Seven Veils….and you, humiliated and vengeful… Continue Reading
by Musette the Embarrassed American Midwest, circa 1962: we had Hershey’s Chocolate Bars. Life was good. Then came M&M Wafer Bars (the precursor to Kit Kat)…and for a brief period of time, Hostess Fingers (I swear that’s the… Continue Reading
March is knee-deep in family stuff (all garden-variety, no Drama – but you know how those days go)…so it’s meeeee! your sweetpatootieMusette, back for another day! Hey! Whereyagoin? GET BACK HERE! It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The… Continue Reading