Archive for April, 2010
Candy Cigarettes
My pals and I were talking recently about candy cigarettes, more precisely about their disappearance. (Remember as a kid balancing one of these sticks between your lips and trying to look like James Dean or Lauren Bacall?) We decided that the intensive, years-campaign against tobacco cigarettes had pretty well made candy cigarettes a PC taboo. [...]
Bert and I – Stories from Down East
When we moved to Belfast over a year ago , a good friend gave me a CD entitled, “The Best of Bert and I… Celebrating 50 Years of Stories from Down East” (2008). This disc did not get played immediately. However, on a recent return drive from a visit to Washington DC, I became very [...]
