A special toast and a private joke...let it go.

"Although inspired in part by a true incident, the following story  does depict actual persons or events."  For centuries, champagne has been the preferred choice for celebrating life’s finest moments. Madame de Pompadour ordered it by the gallon for her parties: 1800 bottles were consumed during one masked ball at the Hotel de Ville in 1739. Benedictine monks around Carcassone started producing sparkling wine in the early...

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Reveillon Joyeux - Welcome to 2016

As I trekked to work on the last day of 2015, I was startled when the driver in the car next to me honked and asked that I roll down my window. Instantly, I expected that I would be informed that I was dealing with a flat tire or a dangling car part from the rear. I rolled down the window with hesitation expecting the worst. I thought, "good grief! " I looked over in order to find out what terrible problem I would face...

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It's all about the cake!

  On This Day!   On the occasion of my birth, my mother snipped and saved this little ditty of a newspaper clipping to mark the exceptional day in which I had gallantly arrived into this world.     To date, I have googled extensively 'el Dia del Abuelo' as seen on the snip above only to find that perhaps it was not really the day commemorating 'abuelos' everywhere. It was my mom's way of  memorializing...

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FPAC - A few words and a pictoral essay ...November 14, 2015.

           "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that happened." Mark Twain. Saturday, November 14, 2015, a night whereby things happened and won't be forgotten...  Looking back to the incident of my birth (a Twain-ism at its' finest), I submit, the most important...

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