Are you sad?  Not feeling quite yourself?  Feel stressed?  Maybe you have a leak in your house.  Maybe your boyfriend broke-up with you once again for the third time, within the same week.  Or maybe your latest hairstyle looks like Annie met that mean gremlin, Spike?      Whatever it is that’s getting you down…here’s my suggestion:  put down …

     Can’t wait to see this week’s episode.  What a great show.  Can’t believe you haven’t seen it.  You’d love it.  Blah blah blah.  This is all I kept hearing from people about some new show…Game of something.  Sounded familiar.  I’d heard of it…oh, that’s right, I did see the previews on HBO.  I guess …

    There are two public figures whose presence brings me to tears: the Dalai Lama and Bono.       You may chuckle or giggle a little at my previous statement, but if you’ve sat through a U2 concert or rather, danced like a school girl through a U2 concert, you could understand how it is a religious experience.  This group’s compassion and humanitarianism is …

    Actually, the title is not a reference to U2 even though I am going to see them later today.  The title is a reference to my themed Sunday gatherings that began June 26th, which are comprised of New Orleans-style bloody mary with pickled green beens and okra, and True Blood.  Now you understand…    June 26th began like a …

    Bubble-gum smell.  Humor.  Cool glasses.  Good music.  It’s not a 3-D movie or a ride at Disney…it’s my dentist’s office…Ariel J. Rodriguez, D.D.S. in Glendale, California.    I arrived with my luggage since this was my last stop before my return flight to MIA.  I was greeted by two lovely women, who asked me about my trip, …

    Ah in the good ol’ days you could be a lady of the night on Hollywood Blvd, and offer your services to a wealthy man (like Richard Gere for example) who will put you up at the Willshire and take you shopping on Rodeo Drive baby! Hollywood has undergone a change geared more towards inviting …

    Not only does Sookie have the ability to listen to your thoughts, but she also has the ability to impair my ability to blog.  Why you may ask?  Well because her creator, Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, also the basis for a little show we know as True Blood (whose new season …

    It’s 6:30 am, my beloved has set the cardiac-arrest-inducing alarm to snooze again.  I walk over to the lobby whose architecture has a Spanish air to it, grab some much needed coffee, sit down next to a bougainvillea-adorned window overlooking the street below, and begin to write.      You can see the ocean from where I’m sitting.  The …

    I’ll make this short given my love for theme parks (no, I’m not serious)…    Aaaah theme parks.  Screaming, never-seemingly satisfied children.  Parents that are exhausted both physically and financially.  Searing sun.  Long lines. No tranquilizers.  And that’s just Disneyworld in Orlando.    The flowers are in bloom.  The people are nicer.  The weather is kinder.  The size is more manageable.  The …

    Make a day of it…Go to the stunning Getty Villa overlooking the spectacular view of the coast in Malibu, drive by the location where Two and A Half Men are filmed to see what Charlie’s up to now…oh, sorry, I mean Ashton, and then continue on to a wooden restaurant located on your left hand side, …