Her mind wanders
Posted in Holidays and Festivals on Dec 30th, 2011
When I first hear that Nashville was replacing it’s traditional New Year’s Eve guitar drop with a musical note drop, I went all conspiracy theory on Dick Clark’s a**. (Please note, Dick Clark has NOTHING to do with New Year’s Eve in Nashville, but he does universally represent the holiday. Kind of like Santa and [...]
Posted in Holidays and Festivals on Dec 22nd, 2011
Okay, now I’m worried. I figured out pretty early on that there were limits to Santa’s surveillance powers. I was five when I grasped the concept behind the story that the quantity and quality of my Christmas morning gifts hinged on what information Santa’s Children’s Reconnaissance Bureau had gathered on my behavior during the year. [...]
Posted in Holidays and Festivals on Oct 31st, 2011
Happy Halloween! Very excited. Have just learned that I do not have to make the trip to the next life in a boring brown or black box. Eric Kpakpo Adotey in Ghana can TOTALLY fix me up for my ride across the stars in a wooden replica of a space ship, a Coca-Cola bottle, a [...]
Posted in Holidays and Festivals on Dec 31st, 2009
Happy New Year everyone!!! The 2009 holiday season is officially drawing to a close. Here are a few things I leaned during this year’s festivities. A male ballet dancer is indeed sometimres referred to as a ballerino, even though I was just participating in the time-honored Neligan tradition of making stuff up when I said [...]
Posted in Holidays and Festivals on Dec 21st, 2009
Another turkey dinner is drawing near for a lot of us. Here is a holiday fun fact. I typically am not a big fan of GEWÜRZTRAMINER wine. It is a little sweet for me. However, the cool guy at Bud’s Discount Liquor in Nashville explained to me that it is a popular holiday dinner choice [...]
Posted in Holidays and Festivals on Dec 14th, 2009
I know Christmas is the season of love for family and friends, and I probably should be saying, “ho, ho, ho,” but instead I am saying “ha, ha, ha, suckers.” The Neligan siblings and related spouses, partners, fiancés, boyfriends, girlfriends, and children got together on Saturday for a little pre-Christmas celebration. There’s a bunch of [...]
