Month: April 2012
Nerds Inherit LA Times Festival of Books!
Along with getting 5 feet from Julie Andrews, Betty White and being in close vicinity of Anne Rice and The Mystery Machine (oh, yeah!) at the Festival of Books on the USC campus this past weekend, I must say the highlight for me was a […]
The LA Times Festival of Books!
Ever since the Los Angeles Times began the Festival of Books in 1996, I have wanted to go. 17 years later, I can not only finally mark it off my bucket list but know I want to return each year. Held at The University of […]
Alcohol, Gluten Free Style (2nd Edition!)
(* The post I was up late having to re-write as I thought it vanished on me last week, was nestled safely on my homepage under Drafts. Woo hoo! I did not press Save or anything, & thought it was gone. This is a better […]
Alcohol, Gluten Free Style….
Anyone who knows me knows I enjoy a great drink. Luckily, being Gluten Free has not put a damper on that. I, thankfully, do not like beer, which is loaded with barley, wheat & hops, all an obvious no-no for a Gluten Free diet. While […]
Orange Blossom Special in Santa Ana!
A really great thing I have noticed living in SoCal is that there is always an opportunity to check out great local bands & usually you have a friend who knows the members. A happy hour dinner with buds last evening turned into an entire night […]
A Day at The Races (38th Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach!)
2009 marked real changes in my life; the biggest being I moved out of my parents from Solvang, CA, down to sunny SoCal in the Fall. But, prior to that, in Spring of that year, I was down here visiting my Grandma & attended my […]
Cupid, There is a Reason You are Just ‘Ok’….
I am one of the millions of people out there who has an on-line dating profile. It seems to me that most of my fellow single friends have at-least one, or have tried it at one time or another. If nothing else, it can make […]
Growing Up Danish (Kind of…)
I had to laugh when I logged into Facebook yesterday & saw a link from Solvang, CA’s page; National Geographic mentioned Solvang on a blog post that the town is one of the “Best European Villages in America”. When I am asked where I am from, or if I […]
“So…Mary…what CAN you eat?!”
Let me begin by saying I am very pleased at the responce to my very first post on my brand spankin’ new blog! My friends have shown their support, as well as new peeps I have ‘met’ via Twitter & even some fellow bloggers have […]
Gluten-Free in New York City
Do you ever find that you can end up becoming more familiar with the happenings in your vacationing city than you do in your hometown? That is not to say I don’t have my favorite spots I frequent here in So Cal. Yet, some things as I […]