Bucky Badger Rocks the Rose Parade 2012 Step aside, Santa! All Hail, Queen Vanessa! Time to move on, people, at least here in Pasadena where things really pick up as we head towards New Year’s Day. Onto the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game. Welcome Wisconsin, Stanford and all you Bandies from all over. [...]
December 26, 2012 | Posted in
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Step aside, Santa! All Hail, Queen Vanessa! Time to move on, people, at least here in Pasadena where things really pick up as we head towards New Year’s Day. Onto the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game. Welcome Wisconsin, Stanford and all you Bandies from all over. As a public service, a few posts [...]
December 26, 2012 | Posted in
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Books I Enjoyed in 2012 A short list—and probably incomplete—of the books that on my bedside table that stood out to me this year. As I was working on my own novel, you’ll see that my list happens to be all fiction and all written by women. That happens, as I tend to pick up [...]
December 21, 2012 | Posted in
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From the Archives. In honor of those lost last week in Connecticut. Last summer, a mother and father bird made a nest in the camellia bush just outside our back door. I’m no birdwatcher, but I can tell you that male was gorgeous with a black body, yellow bill and a red crest. The female? She [...]
December 19, 2012 | Posted in
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My Mother, New Orleans 2011 Last Friday, we celebrated the funeral mass for my mother Edna Klarman Dolan in my hometown of Fairfield, Connecticut. I can say with full confidence that she would have loved to have been there. The day was filled with family, old friends, memories and warmth, good food and lovely flowers [...]
December 10, 2012 | Posted in
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Chaos Chronicles 605: An Update and Many Thanks for your Kind Words: Chaos Chronicles 605: An Update and Thanks Lian describes the last few months of her mother’s illness, death and funeral. A list of Lessons Learned and the To Do list for the rest of the year. Direct download: Chaos_605.m4a Category:2012 — posted at: [...]
December 10, 2012 | Posted in
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Edna Klarman Dolan , Santa Monica Beach 2011 It’s with a heavy heart that I announce the death of my mother, Edna Klarman Dolan. After a short, intense bout with cancer, my mother died late Monday night in a room filled with peace, light and love. My mother was a wife of 62 years, a [...]
November 27, 2012 | Posted in
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Yes, I made the leap to an e-reader! At least for a little bit. As part of the Viewpoints Blogger Review Panel, a new Kindle Paperwhite arrived at my door about a month ago. As an e-reader newbie, I was pretty intimidated. But as a writer, I knew I had to at least give the [...]
November 16, 2012 | Posted in
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Mon, 12 November 2012 Chaos Chronicles Special with the Satellite Sisters: Update from the Homefront Lian welcomes her sisters Julie Dolan and Liz Dolan, two of the five Satellite Sisters, to the Chaos Chronicles. A Chaos Chronicles/Satellite Sisters: A Panini Generation update on our parents, our lives and Gen. Petraeus Julie, Liz and Lian reconnect [...]
November 12, 2012 | Posted in
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Hi, Chaos Crew– My niece Katherine Dolan is a Brooklynite and a social media expert who created a really fantastic way to donate much needed items directly to Sandy’s victims– an Amazon “Wedding Registry”. Katherine and her two friends Alex and John cooked up the idea on Saturady and now the concept has gone viral, [...]
November 5, 2012 | Posted in
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