Annette | December 9, 2009
and I’m lucky enough to have some of them as friends. The dog is pure lagniappe, for sure. Cuter than all of us put together.
But, when Rosemary backed the right guy for President – alas, things go awry – she managed to get her picture taken with him:
And Harry, who loves James as [...]
Annette | March 20, 2009
and, I don’t mind saying, I believe I’m a bit in love with these wonderfully goofy guys (and their superlative border collies):
Annette | January 7, 2009
Leave it to the French to come up with this utterly charming and instructive cartoon to get across to youngsters the importance of safe sex:
Annette | January 5, 2009
but, man, the creeps blathering about how the Scientologists killed the Travolta boy are starting to get on my nerves. They have no access to the kid’s medical records, so where do they get off condemning the care his parents obtained for him?
That kind of intrusive ignorance just fries my ass.
I shouldn’t waste my [...]
Annette | October 31, 2008
I was a young social worker at the Jane Addams Center of Hull House in Chicago, and he was on the Hull House board. This was in the early seventies. There was nothing he wouldn’t do for the organization, no job too slight.
And stories! Man, riding in a car with [...]
Annette | October 24, 2008
This is where we all came together all those years ago. The Atlantis is gone now, but the ocean and the beach are still the same, the tides roll in, the tides roll out, the light on the water still mesmerizes, the air is still sweet, and we are still young and beautiful, the [...]
Annette | September 23, 2008
Maybe the cutest little primate around:
Annette | August 23, 2008
I was reading my hometown paper online this morning, and, as usual, checked the obituaries, where I usually recognize more names than I do in the news. It’s been a long time away.
But, this morning, there was one, and it bears notice:
Lily Rose Perlaki, 9 days old, died Aug. 14, at St. Christopher’s Children’s [...]
Annette | June 23, 2008
We were both seated in first-class, flying from Los Angeles to New York. Across the aisle from each other, we smiled reciprocal smiles. Then he asked me if NY was home, and I said “No, I’m going for work. But I live in Virginia most of the time. You?” He said, [...]
Annette | June 13, 2008
We recognized each other, Jesuit-trained lawyers. I only met him once, but he was every bit the big, smart, charming, and irresistible Irishman. The man I was with, also a journalist, knew him better, and we shared some time together before the main event started in a big Washington hotel. You couldn’t [...]
Annette | June 12, 2008
On a day when our country is just beginning to lift up its head in hopeful watchfulness, as Barack Obama begins his quest for victory in the general election in November, the Supreme Court of the United States (hereinafter known as “The Supremes”) came down with a decision that set the warmongering profiteer murderers in [...]
Annette | May 22, 2008
and this is why Barack Obama will be our next President:
“I know I was spoiled growing up in a baseball-mad city at a time when three future Hall of Fame centerfielders were playing every day – Mickey Mantle, Duke Snider, and Willie Mays. I know I will never again see such power and grace [...]
Annette | May 5, 2008
You simply cannot listen to this video without rocking. You just can’t.
Pay special attention at 4:11. It’s just gorgeous.
Annette | April 28, 2008
He was a buddy of my Dad’s, them being the same age, the same ethnic/religious background. They even looked a bit alike. He was always very nice to me, and it was normal to see him on his mailman rounds, and call out, “Hi, Joe.” He’d wave and continue on. In [...]
Annette | March 26, 2008
He was in so many movies I saw as a kid, it felt like I knew him. It was always a relief when he smiled, which wasn’t very often.
He was gorgeous. And talented. A real star.
Actor Richard Widmark dies at 93
Hollywood star Richard Widmark has died at the [...]
Annette | March 3, 2007
They were sisters. They were never in synch, always at odds in one way or another, and, each in her own way, total headcases.
But, when you put them together, they were a vision. My mother was one of them, the one on the far left. Then there is Helen, who was beautiful [...]
Annette | March 2, 2007
I volunteer to drive a stake through Dickless Cheney’s heart, and someone in the Middle East tries to assassinate him.
No, it wasn’t me. I surely wouldn’t travel that far just to do that sort of thing. In fact, it would have to be brought to me and even then, I’d think long and [...]
Annette | February 1, 2007
This is the last column written by Molly Ivins, and, having attended Father Drinan’s funeral service this morning, the last post dealing with my departed heroes.
What Father Drinan did with his life is well-documented and it’s out there for those who don’t know about him.
What Molly Ivins wrote will stand forever as a tribute to [...]
Annette | January 15, 2007
In Kalamazoo, Michigan, at the Courthouse, every Sunday, my friend Larry and other right-thinking, conscientious, responsible and patriotic Americans have been gathering, in the heat and the cold (it was COLD when this picture was taken yesterday), to protest the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
They are American heroes.
Keep them in mind.
Our military must [...]
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