April 19, 2019
Mermaid Crafting starts… now! And I have so much to work with; I’m kind of overwhelmed by choice. So my step towards being a mermaid in June, a massive sort. Piles serve as mermaid to-do’s. 🧜♀️1 My first 2019 mermaid craft would be a top to sell. With so many Read more…
April 15, 2019
Box-free Baking, Cakes & Cupcakes, Cooking Stuff, Dressing Up, Hosting Duty, Pies, Tarts, & Parfaits, Special Events
It was finally time for the Season 8 premiere of Game of Thrones! And it was time to completely nerd out. And have a vegan Game of Thrones feast with all the bells and whistles. My weekend was full of prep and running around… and then festivities. Here it is Read more…
April 4, 2019
Watching an old and dear friend achieve Hollywood success is quite surreal. Watching them be swarmed by others in every direction… we basked in the love and added ours to it. And we also got star treatment, as special guests of Paramount Pictures, special guests of director Kevin Kölsch, at Read more…
April 1, 2019
With a very special friend relocating to Florida, we sent her off from the Sunshine State within Brooklyn, Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club. The space was a festive backdrop for the bittersweet affair. And though smiles were plentiful, I certainly won’t be the same without my best gal near by. Of Read more…
March 20, 2019
“She liked the last one I gave her. This one turned out better.” This special baked treat was not on my original vegan Game of Thrones menu, but it seems ridiculous not include the most famous of the series’ baked treats: Hot Pie’s Direwolf Bread. I also just used the Read more…
March 19, 2019
Sansa is all about the Lemon Cakes. Unfortunately Lemon Cakes were the only taste of happiness in a terrible string of horrific life experiences for Sansa. So let’s rejoice in Sansa’s simple pleasures before all hell breaks loose in Season 8. Candy Some Lemons 🍋 1 cup water 1 cup Read more…
March 17, 2019
Arya is one of my favorite characters on Game of Thrones. She is a petite spitfire who makes lists and takes care of business, just like me. She also cooks up a mean pie of Walter Frey’s moron sons in Season 6 right before cutting his throat, giving us a Read more…
March 5, 2019
There was a time when April 2019 seemed painfully far away. But somehow April 2019, and the start of Game of Thrones‘s final season, is now just “next month,” April 14th to be specific. With some forethought, I knew I’d need rest and recuperation the Monday after the season premiere. Read more…
January 6, 2019
I caught New York City’s first Lantern Festival on its very last evening at Snug Harbor on Staten Island. Sure, it was crowded and sure, it was muddy, but also… sure, it was pretty darn beautiful and well worth the crowds and mud. My favorite area was the ocean… and Read more…
January 1, 2019
New Years traditions are intriguing. There is a sweet whimsy to the symbolic gestures intended to tuck away the old and ring in the new. There is an innocence to their hope. This is day 1—potent and pure in a way that time will soon taint and obscure. So bask Read more…
December 29, 2018
I did the Coney Island New Years Polar Bear Plunge in 2015 and I thought it was a great way to start a new year. So with tentative plans to partake in the tradition again this New Year, I took a boring old halter top bikini top and utilized a Read more…
November 12, 2018
The Great Jack-o-Lantern Blaze has been a popular Halloween event since 2005 (!), though I just learned of it this Halloween season. It is just the most wonderful kind of whimsy–thousands of pumpkins… hand carved and ablaze within Van Cortland Manor‘s grounds in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Add spectacular lighting within Read more…
October 27, 2018
No, I’m not going to be Robert Daltrey for Halloween, nor a shaggy sheep like some guessed. The big, blonde mess of hair would be a misguided role model of my childhood, Barbie… as a Rocker. I am not a costume in a bag type gal. So I took care Read more…
July 14, 2018
How cool that the Brooklyn Cyclones would do a vegan night! Well, to be accurate it was Grateful Dead Night, Vegan Night, Cub Scouts Night, so on and so forth. But I appreciated the options… and the buzz of Coney Island in the evening, one of my favorite Brooklyn things. Marty’s Read more…
June 17, 2018
The Buck n’ Ears… All ready to march in the 36th annual Mermaid Parade. But first, my commemorative vegan cupcakes. Mermaid Hair, Don’t Care Getting ready in Brighton Beach Our “float” made with recycled bottle fishies Mermaid bling A beautiful day for a parade Back where a mermaid belongs
April 7, 2018
Mermaid crafting! It’s starting to be that time of year… though it’s still darn chilly out. My bin of mermaid booty is coming out of the basement before the Winter-Spring wardrobe switcheroo. It is great to see my mermaid top is holding up sturdily. The shoes… meh. I didn’t wear Read more…
March 30, 2018
I’m a big fan of Steve Hartman‘s human interest stories that air on the end of CBS News. These days, the state of the country, the state of the world is often too scary and disturbing to listen to. But at the end of Friday’s broadcast, Steve Hartman’s “On the Read more…
October 15, 2017
A friend and I were official registered zombies for the 5K obstacle course Zombie Mud Run in Reading, Pennsylvania, part of the 26-year running premiere haunted attraction Shocktoberfest. Our task: arrive early, become a zombie… and grab the brains, heart and entrails (flags) of the registered human runners. Of course, that last Read more…
August 21, 2017
I spent my day in Gallatin, Tennessee in the line of totality during the Great American Eclipse. Since I traveled far and prepared a lot, I thought it best to get there at 2:45 a.m., joined only by singing crickets and several other eclipse chasers who agreed that the idea Read more…
August 16, 2017
Water/water thermos Mini cooler to keep your water cold Coffee thermos Sunscreen Sunglasses for sit/wait time Brimmed hat Bug spray Blanket Snacks Roll of toilet paper Cell phone & charger, though cell service will likely be jammed up Plastic champagne flute Solar glasses White towels to reflect sun of equipment Read more…
First: you know how you hear stories of people who try frying turkeys during Thanksgiving and cause an explosion? Or Meth producers who blow up their homes? Like that, you risk catastrophic consequences if you go staring at the sun willy-nilly without protection–or looking through a camera without a solar Read more…
August 9, 2017
I made my first reservation related to Great American Eclipse travel in September 2016 …like a big nerd. Now that it is almost here, along with growing media coverage including its own section in the New York Times last Sunday, I have to make sure my preparations are squared away. Like Read more…
June 27, 2017
I’m officially sick of seeing pictures of me as a mermaid “blowing up” on social media (i.e. more than 5 likes). But for posterity, I’ll include some fiddled-with outtakes on you, dear blog. Starting with my at-home mermaid hair. Then, at Coney Island, we got soaked in the rain. This Read more…
November 19, 2016
For perspective, a stop at Long Island National Cemetery during menial errands on Veterans Day. So many lives. Savory crepes at Lil Choc Apothecary before Choir! Choir! Choir! in Brooklyn. Pulling beets prematurely. Educating the youths.Soon after he raked the yard. #futureman Dinner party planning with the help of Frank.
September 27, 2015
Robibero Family Vinyards in New Paltz, New York had its annual grape-stomping festival this weekend, the first weekend of autumn. It was the perfect excuse to run north for the day with CP. After managed expectations, I was delighted by the peaceful, bucolic property and the opportunity to check another item off my bucket Read more…
January 1, 2015
On a beautiful New Years Day 2015, Fluff watched and wondered why we packed up towels, swim caps and a change of clothes. She wondered why I was walking about in my robe, thermal socks and water booties. Starting 2015 off with a splash, we were heading to Coney Island Read more…