And the Golden Globe Goes to JC Penney!
The Awards season has officially kicked off, in my opinion anyway. Once we have the annual Golden Globes, the rest follow – the SAG Awards on January 27th on TNT/TBS followed by the Director’s Guild of America Awards (not on TV but a precursor to the next one), and the biggie – the Oscars on … Read more
Cheering on Miss North Carolina 2012 in Tonight’s Miss America Pageant
Every little girl dreams of being a princess. In the United States that’s impossible, but the next closest thing is Miss America. I know there was a time or two when I was a child that I did the Miss America wave from my living room (or the back deck but don’t tell anyone). Tonight, … Read more
Scotty McCreery Performs to Packed House at NC State Fair and I Was There
In the FRONT ROW. And he did NOT disappoint. With songs from his platinum selling album Clear As Day (including my favorites “Back On the Ground” and “Dirty Dishes”) to covers of Travis Tritt’s “T.R.O.U.B.L.E.” and John Michael Montgomery’s “Letters From Home” (with a backdrop that included a slideshow of members of our Armed … Read more
Everybody Deserves a Vacation
Everybody. Period. And holidays with family don’t count. While you are “away from work” (well, most of us are anyway), you’re also in hustle and bustle mode; quite different from a get-away-from-it-all-vacation. It’s been nearly 3 years since my last vacation and even then, while I was away and while I enjoyed myself too, at … Read more
Farewell Whitney Houston
I have been waiting all week to write this mostly because I wasn’t sure how I was going to begin to express how I feel about the untimely death of Whitney Houston. I figured it out this morning. I am a child of God. I live my life everyday, I am alive everyday because of … Read more
