Packing up your beach bag for the weekend and wondering what to toss into your Yeti? A 'Peachy Beachy' is wicked easy to whip up, takes advantage of the most luscious fruit of the season and is totally DELISH, aka ~ total score! The 'Peachy Beachy' is a quick mix of...
Dinah Manoff has written a novel novel. At first blush the black lacquered book-cover with pops of hot-pink makes ya think 'The Real True Hollywood Secrets of Jackie Gold' will spill across the book's pages like chardonnay on a summer day. It certainly can read like a...
Suzanne Koven, M.D. doesn't practice surgery, although the way she dissects the body of her medical career and sutures it back together in prose indicates this chick has mad-skills. Dr. Koven is a primary care physician, a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical...
Billy Joel rocked-out of his covid-induced performing-hiatus Wednesday night. Even before *'The Natural' talent stepped on stage his fans were in a fevered pitch. The venue was a classic match-up of greats. The "Green Monster' of Fenway Park framed the 'New York...
If your heart has felt the soft-rock lyrics of Dan Fogelberg's song "Leader of the Band" you have a sense for Patricia DeRosa Padden's commitment to honoring her 99 year old dad's legacy. To hear her sing his praises is to listen to a love story. Her phrasing is...
If you've ever heard Harry Nilsson sing the song that says "You put de lime in de coconut, you drink 'em bot' togedder. Put de lime in de coconut, then you feel better " you'll understand the classic lyrics even better after you pour yourself one of these creamy,...
Inside a little Cape Cod art gallery is an extraordinary painting of an ordinary oak by Ethan Murrow, a mighty talented guy. The decaying tree and the imagined energy that surrounds it are a modern-day riff on Heraclitus' philosophy "All is flux. Nothing stays...
Ahhhh hydrangea season, those big blue mop heads are a signature of long warn summer days. Without being fussy they brighten corners from city scopes to seashores. As buds go, they're as cool as a summer time romance can be. If they inspire you to sit and chill...
Tradition is part of Wimbledon. There's simply no reason to change a good thing when the good things include strawberries, cream ~ and two gorgeous hunks! A traditional Breakfast at Wimbledon calls for a proper dish of ripe strawberries to be served with cream....
Ranked # 1 in the world, 25 year old Ashleigh Barty of Australia, a member of the Ngaragu people, won the Women's Finals at Wimbledon today. Her opponent was 29 year old Karolína Pliškosá of Czechoslovakia. The court-contest was a nail-biter. Both women relied on...
Kicking off the holiday weekend in style, Jill Biden marked her first 4th of July as First Lady at Portland Head Light in Maine's historic Fort Williams Park. Rocking the look of an All-American girl, the 70 year old made a fitting fashion statement even before she...
'Wicked' is the way we live in Boston. It's more than a word, it's a state of mind. The Boston Red Sox are a wicked good major league baseball team ~ especially this year. Some summer nights in Boston can be wicked scorch~a's Even...
By converting galleries into symbolic ports-of-call The Peabody Essex Museum has earned a reputation for expressing Maritime Culture in exotic waves of thought. Their latest exhibition, "In American Waters" surrounds visitors with art splashed with pride, profits and...
This little sparkler can brighten any day, but it's especially fun when you're honoring Flag Day. It doesn't really need a recipe. It's a splashy mix of iced sparkling water, garnished with red and blue berries. Of course, if you add your favorite white wine, even...
In the 1939 movie classic The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's Wildest Dreams took her 'Over The Rainbow' , "Where troubles melt like lemon drops". Could it be she was channeling her inner-Ina, and those Lemon Drops were actually ~ Martinis? You don't need to be facing a storm...
Cruella was released on Disney+, as well as in theaters, over Memorial Day weekend. The post-covid, Disney "Have it Your Way' premier-style may become a hybrid red-carpet trend especially for those who celebrate summer by catching the latest block-busters. It could...
What if we put JAWS, the summer movie of all summer movies, through our Wildest Dreams time-machine, and it reimagines the allegorical version of " The Old Man and the Sea" as a tale with a very different tail? How 'bout the shark doesn't devour the Martha's Vineyard...
Surviving Covid-19 has been one of our Wildest Dreams. The CDC recently relaxed regulations. And, because much of our population has acquired immunity~it's time we begin to relax too! This twisted mix of vanilla vodka, ginger-ale and sprite has the medicinal capacity...
Simon & Schuster claims "The Triumph of Nancy Reagan" is the definitive biography of the former First Lady. The publisher says that because their editorial director, Priscilla Painton, recruited Washington Post political columnist, Karen Tumulty, to write this...
Raspy-Rita is the kind of cocktail that makes a girl comfortable committing to a liquid diet! There's something soul-satisfying when really ripe fruit crashes over Kosher crystals. In a way it's similar to the mystical nexus between the end of one season and the...