Lady Gaga Day!
Since we had actually gotten on the plane and flew to New York City, I figured this grand-prize thing wasn’t a hoax, but still, I wasn’t sure what to expect on Tuesday. Jim pointed out to me that this wasn’t …
Lady Gaga Trip: Monday Evening
Since we had to leave for this trip to meet Lady Gaga with very little notice, we concentrated on actually getting out of town rather than on what we would do when we got to New York City. So, we …
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Lady Gaga Trip: Monday Daytime
Observations from Monday, June 6, 2011 Soon after Jim and I boarded our plane to Philadelphia, at a little after 11:00 a.m., I tweeted that the plane had propellors. It was a Dash 8-100/200. Propellors scare me. They look like …
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Lady Gaga Concert Winner: Me!
This week, I entered a SiriusXM Gayle King Welcomes Lady Gaga contest and had a funny feeling that I would win. The concert is on Tuesday, June 7 in front of an intimate audience at the SiriusXM New York City …
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My Intimate Moment with Shaq
So, Shaquille O’Neal has Tweeted that he’s retiring his size 23 sneakers after 19 years in the NBA. Now, how many people can say they’ve seen those shoes close-up? I can. And Shaq was in them. It was October 1999, …
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Easter Eve Shopping
Yesterday, I had a few items to pick up at the grocery store for today’s dinner. Who wants to visit Wegmans the day before a holiday? I pictured shopping cart pile-ups, empty shelves, and much jostling to reach the potatoes, …
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The Power of “Ing”
I’m reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. The book asserts that we worry too much about the past and the future and do not spend enough time in the now. If we dwell too much in the future, …
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Punxsutawney Phil and Groundhog Day
After spending a week in State College running Penn State’s iMBA residency program, a detour to Punxsutawney, PA, home of Phil, prognosticator extraordinaire, was in order. Having lived in Pennsylvania nearly all my life, I was raised with Groundhog lore, …
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Holiday Inn Express
Since I gave Best Western a nod in my wonderment of how nice an economy motel can be, I must do the same to Holiday Inn Express, the chain I used for the past two nights. In North Platte, NE, …
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More on Lollipop
Here’s something I wrote about Lollipop when I was at the writers’ retreat in Wyoming: “My horse, Lollipop, is the ugliest of the bunch. He’s the equivalent of a pale, thin, red-headed man. When I first saw him, I was …