The California Flower Girls

Dear Diary: Sunday. 6AM. Lovely early morning. Rain. Sun. Rain again. Candles lit. Cozy. Taste test kitchen reopened. So many weeks of missing. Kitchen is an  old, odd frie...

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Dear Diary: It  begins again. First night. Substitute. Really? Really. Condescension. Disagreement. Really? First project. Here we go again. What am I missing? Dumb it do...

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Can make a cheat sheet for the final. Wonder if that’s a bad sign. Wonder if I can get the whole book on one side of one page. Got most of half the book on it. Breach of class contract ...

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Dear Diary: Wake up. Feel pretty good. Figure out 96 hours until Monday night at 7:15. Minus 24 hours for sleep and class. 72 hours. More than enough. Hours of research. Good r...

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Dear Diary: 5:30AM. Awake. Feel human. 10 hours of sleep. Optimism returns. Do laundry. Watch the sky turn to day. Caffeine with blooming jasmine. Lap time for the cat. Long h...

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Dear Diary: Wake up in the dark. Still tired. Look in mirror. Not good. Hook up caffeine drip. Walk past computer. Swear. Take caffeine outside to sit and look at pretty flowers in ...

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THE FALL OF FREDDIE THE LEAF: A STORY OF LIFE FOR ALL AGES by Leo Buscalgia Spring had passed. So had Summer. Freddie, the leaf, had grown large. His mid section was wide and strong, and his ...

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Ohhhh…domino….you were a little Romeo! (That line is to be song to Van Morrison’s Domino. My all time favorite song.) It has been several months since all things domino have to come a...

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The 4th of July…I never know what I really think about this holiday. In many ways it is another one of those days where the anticipation is always greater than the event…that is until the fir...

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Two pop culture icons gone, one piece of pop culture resurrected. MTV returned to it’s roots when it really was all about music videos and MJ helped launch it into pop culture stardom. So m...

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My plan today was to head out to find those shops that are up on stilts attached to a bridge somewhere here. I was hoping to maybe find a new crown or some little gem I simply could not live with...

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  Click play to get the whole experience. You will like it. So, do it! I awoke today feeling wonderful and full of adventure so I after a coffee or 7 I ran to the front door to see i...

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When I heard that the FBI was still after Fifi and I, I knew I had go travel incognito! Fortunately, I had packed the perfect outfit for that kind of escape. Don’t you just love the bulls ...

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  Or does a court try to hold us? We shook off that nasty tail the FBI has on Fifi and thanks be to Leer made it safely to Verona! Of course, everyone here seems very thrilled  to see us. T...

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I have no more good ideas. None. At. All. I love blogging but when the ideas run dry I refuse to just throw up some stuff on a post and hit publish. In an effort to restart that creative engine, ...

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The phrase “in the pink” has had many meanings over the ages including the one we use today: in good health. For many bloggers, it has another meaning as well. It means it is Saturday and the...

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MR. BONOMO MAKES A NEW FRIEND “MR. BONOMO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE CIRCUS. HE WAS THE MASTER OF CEREMONIES IN THE CENTER RING OF HIS LIFE AND ALL THAT WENT ON AROUND HIM.” Mr. Bonomo was ...

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One of my favorite painters is Marc Chagall. I love his use of vibrant color. The paintings shown below are some of my favorites of his done with blue. Enjoy! Blue House Adam and Eve Expel...

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Welcome to Fashionable Fridays with Fifi and Pink Saturday with Beverly a t How Sweet the Sound and of course, Mothers Day weekend! As a little girl I had many cups of tea with my mother and ha...

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In the last few days too much hot air about too many things has been floating around the news and the Internet. In the name of all that is full of hot air and FUN, I bring you this: Party balloon...

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Why should craigslist take down the erotic personals section of their site? I have been asking myself this question for several days. I know instinctively it is the right thing for them to do ...

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Back in the day there was penny candy...oh, fabulous, lovely, bags of penny candy! Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm old but I would not want to know what life was like when 25 cents couldn't fill up a lit...

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Women and cats do as they dammed well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it. Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a s...

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Oh, bon jour! Petunia here, again! Oh my, this is a huge event! Fifi has been blogging her lovely, creative heart out for an entire year! Imagine that...all that work, all that painting...to br...

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Welcome to another of Fifi's Fashionable Fridays! I do love a fabulous hat maybe even more than I love black and white photograph or maybe just as much. When they come together, it is the best....

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