During this holiday season, I am particularly grateful that, having been at this writing thing for countless years now, I have over 800 columns squirreled away and can occasionally recycle one or two, with no one being the wiser. Unless I tell them, of course, which I'm doing now. As I indulge in the madness of the season, I hope you'll enjoy the re-run below. Happy Holidays! By: Mary Fran Bontempo Tradition. [...]
It's time to rock around the Christmas tree! Enjoy the fun with NRFGP own Mary Fran Bontempo, Chrysa Smith and Pat Achilles. Happy Holidays! It's an Elfstravaganza in "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree!"
Check out this hilarious video with Sandy and Richard Riccardi and remember it the next time you have to cook a holiday meal. Enjoy! --Mary Fran
By: Chrysa Smith Kick up your heels this holiday season with the most flexible ladies this side of your exercise class. That is, the Rockettes. For some 80+ years, the tradition continues to amaze and delight people with their perfect formations and toe-tapping performances that are just not seen anywhere else. Or are they? Well apparently, the linear ladies are not just concentrated in New York. There is a Midwest troop that marches mid-country. [...]
By: Mary Fran Bontempo [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"] A lovely table top tree crafted when I was insane. I used to be so crafty. Not in the like a fox way, in the Martha Stewart way. Back when I was stuck at home with little ones, or, to be more politically [...]
By: Chrysa Smith There I am. Vacuum in one hand; dust cloth in the other. Draped in pearls. Dressed in high heels and of course, a nice dress. Of course it's a dream, as I don't pretend to enjoy housekeeping. Though I must say, once it's done, I get some jollies out of the fact that it all looks so good. And my neurotic 'orderly' tendencies are calmed. So it is with [...]
By: Mary Fran Bontempo Bye-bye Thanksgiving; hello shopping madness. For the next twenty-four days, most of us will be clomping around like the zombies on AMC's The Walking Dead, lurching from store to store in search of the perfect Christmas gifts for everyone on our lists, hoping for an appreciative "Ooohhh" or "Aaaahhh" for our efforts. Those efforts are assisted by the onslaught of advertising jammed down our throats advising us of what [...]
