BYLINE: DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX Thursday, November 22, 11am-2pm. Today’s a delicious day, perhaps not for the turkey, but for the lovers of the beautiful, tasty bird, we say, “gobble-on!” The free Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner with all the trimmings is being served by...
BYLINE: DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX What a week ahead. Every pleasure gratified! Every one of the five senses satisfied, perhaps even the sixth---that’s the hairy one about intuitive power. On that score for most of us, the wheel is constantly turning but the hamster is probably...
BYLINE: DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX Speaking of—and for Veterans Day November 11, we want to salute the heroes---and “she-roes,” as poet Maya Angelou calls our other gender in the military---who know that in the words of an anonymous, unrealized poet, “Freedom is never...
BYLINE: DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX We’re already deep into the season of fundraising luncheons that send the bathroom scale into overdrive, the glamour glut of benefit galas with its best-dressed group hugs, the happy meets-and-greets at openings and anniversaries of new ventures,...
BYLINE: DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX Happy Halloween! Every kid we’ve ever known, including yours truly, has always been afraid of the dark, of things that go bump in the night and sounds too eerie to describe, too horrible to hear through human ears, such as “cackling” which...
BYLINE: DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX Busy month. Getting into our California dreamin’ mood, we’d like to know why the most important election in our lifetime (presidential, the 6th, for those really comatose) is held in early November? Why not in July when we’re rootin’ around...
BYLINE: DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX There’s nothing like gung ho Team Spirit, or for the more sophisticated desert dweller, Esprit de corps. Call the whole seasonal kumbaya get-together---partying or passing on the bucks for a good cause---an extreme sport because in this community...
BYLINE: DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX Like a disaster flick, Carmageddon II was all the rage, as in road-, last weekend when transportation head-honchos shut down a 10-mile stretch of the 405 Freeway for the second time in 14 months! We can’t help but feel sorry for LaLa Land’s...
BYLINE: DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX With every dizzying spin of the planet Earth, where happily it has been decreed that happy is not limited to an hour, where a day without sunshine is ridiculous, where whatever your pleasure, we have it all from sun-up to sun-dip behind the Santa...
BYLINE: DIANE MARLIN-DIRKX September! Fall! Autumn! Actually defined as the period between September 22 to December 21 in the northern hemisphere, the big “leaf-fall” and “temp-dip” will be here in just two days. Time moving fast enough for you? I’ll bet it...
