Tag: entertainment

Button Sunday

I’m really late posting this because I wanted to be able to write a little in my blog about how incredible it was to see Fleetwood Mac last week. It’s been a long, long time. I first saw them with my favorite lineup on the Tusk tour in 1980. In subsequent years, I saw Stevie Nicks a couple of times solo. I saw Fleetwood Mac again when Lindsey Buckingham wasn’t with them. And though Tom and I enjoyed that concert, and Rick Vito and Billy Burnette were really good with them–plus I liked the album they were on with the band–it just didn’t have the same magic without my favorite five band members. So on subsequent tours, with either Lindsey, Stevie Nicks, or Christine McVie missing, I never went to a concert. And I reproached myself a million times for not seeing them when a reunion was brought about after they played together for Bill Clinton’s inauguration after the 1992 election.

Last year when it was announced that Christine was joining the band on tour again, I wanted to see them so much, but money for tickets wasn’t in the budget when they came to Houston. And when they added another Houston date, I went online and struggled to figure out how to buy tickets for decent seats. Finally I was all, “If I can’t figure out how to buy a concert ticket, I’m probably too old for concerts.”

That brings me to last week, when our friend (and my boss) Cindy was unable to use her Fleetwood Mac tickets and GAVE them to Tim and me. I was ecstatic. The band’s music is woven through decades of my personal history–my friend Kathy and I listened to them non stop in college. Lynne was with me at the Tusk concert. Riley (whose birthday is today–I miss him so much) was willing to listen to Fleetwood Mac with me the way I’d always listened to the Beatles with him and put up with all my Stevie Nicks worship. The first song Tom and I ever danced to was by Fleetwood Mac. Tim and I bonded immediately in our friendship over Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks. “The Chain” became not only the band’s promise to stay together no matter what, but it was the song that Tim, Jim, Timmy, and I used as our commitment to never let writing together get in the way of our friendships.

The concert exceeded all my expectations. We had terrific seats. Lindsey Buckingham had just as much energy and passion as the first time I saw him so many years ago and remains one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Mick Fleetwood is every bit the showman he’s always been. John McVie is still the quiet backbone of the band with his bass. Stevie, Lindsey, and Christine sounded amazing together. I really just want to go buy every piece of music by them I don’t already own. I don’t know how they can still be going so strong, but if I get another opportunity to see them all together, I’m taking it.

What a wonderful night to be
The stars must be my friends
To shine for me…


We will never forget tonight…

Thank you, Cindy and Johnny!

Happy New Year!

I hope you all have a safe and happy new year. I need to get busy preparing the usual fare on this day: ham, black-eyed peas, greens, and of course, Tom will make biscuits.

Something I learned last night: No matter to what degree we respect The Force in whatever form it manifests–light saber, Yoda, Darth Vader–the Illuminati scares the crap out of us all. Might I recommend as a fun game the one that Rhonda and Lindsey gave Tom for his birthday: Superfight! Finally, some organization to those arguments over who would win in a fight: Six Inch Tall Justin Bieber with an army of tweens or a Hangry Vegan who has to pee really bad.

Special thinks to Geri and David for providing the typewriter ornament that inspired the new 2015 banner and to Lynne for the backdrop.

ONWARD to new adventures!

100 Happy Days: 96

What’s making me happy today is that I made the executive decision not to do a Runway Monday design this week. It might have been a challenge created just for me, because the inspiration came from particular American Girl dolls and the models for the updated looks were ‘tweens (and they were pretty great on the runway). If you read A Coventry Christmas, you know that Keelie actually had a toy manufacturer interested in creating a doll from a story she was writing about a young girl. I had considered rereading that (it’s been a long time!) and using Keelie and Destiny as my inspiration.

It would have been fun, but I’m just too pressed for time right now, and the other things I’m doing have to be a priority. Sorry if you came here hoping for doll fashion this week. But hey, look: PUPPY!


This is Potter. Someone saved his life last week.

Runway Monday: The Rainway (PR 13:8)

On the most recent episode of Lifetime’s Project Runway, the designers were challenged to create avant garde looks that would be able to stand up to the elements, especially the rain. In fact, the runway was transformed into a “rainway” and the designers had to use waterproof textiles in their looks.

Okay, some points.

I’m not letting it rain on my computer, which serves as the backdrop to my runway.

Currently, I have almost zero time to design anything, much less an avant garde look.

Fortunately, I can’t be eliminated! And I have the most beautiful model and muse in the world, Summer. She’s helping me prove a point. There really is a woman who can make a trash bag look like fashion. Thanks, Summer!


See you next time on the runway with–hopefully–a more fashionable design.

Black bag used for dress from Murder By The Book. Boots and belt by Mattel.

Previous looks from this season:

13:7 Priceless Runway
13:6 Rock the Wedding
13:5 The Klum of Doom
13:4 A Suitable Twist
13:3 Welcome to the Future
13:2 Unconventional Movie Night
13:1 The Judges Decide