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Maureen

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About Me

Love music, lovers, music lovers, musicians and others. All else subject to change!

My Interests

Music, gardening, fitness, cooking/baking, politics, poetry, crafts, pets, home decor and renovation projects.

I'd like to meet:

Bill Murray and all his brothers, Alec Baldwin and the same, Bill Richardson, Ann Richardson, Al Gore, Patti LaBelle, Roberto Clemente, Jack Lambert, Terry Bradshaw, Fred Smith, Kinky Friedman, Leonard Bernstein, Kristen Chenoweth, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Ford, Los Lonely Boys, the entire Marsalis Family, Ogden Nash, Harry Connick, Jr., Al Jarreau, Dorothy Parker, The Irish Tenors, The Ten Tenors, Van Morrison, Joanne Fluke, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Diana Krall along with Declan and the twins, Randy Newman, Studs Terkel, Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, Stevie Ray and Jimmy Vaughan, George and Ira Gerschwin (I'm starting to worry about this "brothers" thing), Tom Berenger, Sylvia Browne, Marianne Williamson, Coco Chanel, Aretha, J.S. Bach, Bill Rafferty, Dick Cheney, Mike Royko, Mike Ditka, Callan Pinckney, and Luke Ravenstahl.

Movies:

Wait till it comes on TV (just kidding; see my next answer!).

Television:

Turn it off.

Books:

Go to the Library. Read them all. The future of Western civilization is on your slackin' shoulders - now go!

Heroes:

Chicks: My mom (Mary Rita Koral Slevin), Mary Magdalene, Mary MOC, many other Maries.Dudes: My dad (Leonard Gerald Slevin) and every other coal miner in history (including chicks!), Saint Francis of Assisi, Bill Cosby.Kids: Quincy Anna-Beth, Lauren Elizabeth, Jude Xavier, Donovan Jake, Andre, and Tianna Marie, along with all my young and restless vocal students.

My Blog

Aunties Kitchen: This Is All I Have to Say About That

Right there on full media display, Mrs. Spitzer should have started smacking him "up side the head" first on the left side, then the right with her (I’m gonna guess) Kate Spade handbag, saying "...
Posted by Maureen on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:18:00 PST

Aunties Kitchen: Bad Boys Book Club

In my dotage (look it up), some of my major goals are health and happiness.  To that end, I try to "accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, don't mess with Mr. In-Between." This process ...
Posted by Maureen on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:31:00 PST

Aunties Kitchen: Hillary Letter Update and Fibromyalgia Facts

Succumbing to pressure from a number of major media outlets and people who actually know me (!), I am hereby posting an official clarification of my "I'm not all that angry" post of yesterday.  A...
Posted by Maureen on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:35:00 PST

Aunties Kitchen: Open Letter to Hillary

Okay, girl.  We understand why you are so angry.  We really really do!  You've got a heap of loathing that just never ever ever goes away.  We get that.   ...
Posted by Maureen on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:24:00 PST

Aunties Kitchen: Book Report "Body Signs"

Before I return this library book ("Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms . . . How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective,") I feel compelled to share . . .      Skin cance...
Posted by Maureen on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:19:00 PST

Auntie’s Kitchen: Commandments of Love Bonus

I know what love is.  I may not be lucky or even good at it, but like the US Supreme Court re: pornography "I know it when I see it." Love is . . . A six year old boy trying to carry a mattress ...
Posted by Maureen on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:46:00 PST

Auntie’s Kitchen: Open once again

Apparently my blog cured itself, or I stopped messing it up!!!!  This is a test . . .
Posted by Maureen on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:55:00 PST

Aunties Kitchen: Three Degrees of Separation and the Face of the Future

What do Ronald Reagan, Bob Marley, and my sainted mom have in common?  February 06 birthdays, that's what!  I will address the VERY MUCH ALIVE fourth horseman of this apocalyptic tale i...
Posted by Maureen on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:53:00 PST

Aunties Kitchen: Why I am Going to Miss the Bush Administration

AH-HA!  At last I get it; the torture thing.  Why couldn't I see it before??? But first, a bit of historical context.  Way, way, way back before his beard betrayed him on nati...
Posted by Maureen on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:22:00 PST

Aunties Kitchen: To Listen Is to Love, and You Gotta Love This!!!!!!!

DAN AND I WILL CHALLENGE ANYBODY OUT THERE TO A SPELLING BEE!   WOULDN'T THE WORLD BE A SAFER PLACE IF WE BATTLED WITH OUR WITS???????   Spell 'em, Danno . . . must be a keyboard p...
Posted by Maureen on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:23:00 PST