Kate's Random Musings

Liquor? I Don't Even Know Her

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:36:00 +0000

Oh, Ohio. I hate your backwoods, Bible Belty booze laws. I so dislike that our city doesn't have a decent liquor store. Yes, we have great wine stores aplenty (well, plenty might be pushing it), and you can even find some amazing microbrewed beer at several of those places, too. But...

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Conch Out

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Wed, 23 May 2012 04:12:00 +0000

This guy played a conch shell (actually, five or six of 'em) at the Jazz Club at Schwartz Point. Head to the spot with the green lantern at Vine and McMicken streets (OtR) on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday evenings. It's a perfect date night, a great place to catch hot jazz, and otherwise be...

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People Are Talkin'

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:36:00 +0000

Women sure do love to talk, don't they? At hair salons, during book club meeting, in the ladies' room - women are a bunch of Chatty Cathys. In these conversations we find comraderie, compassion and an opportunity to connect. You can find the same next Thursday at the SmartTalk Women's...

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The People I Meet

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:48:00 +0000

I couldn't tell if it was a serious inquiry or a come-on. "Do you like chocolate?" he asked with a grin, his hair neatly plaited in tight cornrows. We both walked down Vine Street on a sunny, Thursday morning. A kick in my step and a swagger in his. He looked to be about 23-years-old, his...

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The Difference of One Year

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:30:00 +0000

For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.— T.S. Elliot One year ago I stepped onto the Indian subcontinent and experienced a sincerely life-changing adventure. You can read more about the...

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Making A List And Checking It Twice

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:56:00 +0000

I feel like Santa Claus. The latest page in my notepad features a growing list of friends and connections I've let wither on the vine. Life has been incredibly hectic these past six-eight months, and I've not done enough to maintain relationships I treasure. So today, I made a list of...

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Face Time

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:20:00 +0000

I once knew a processed foods heiress who demanded face time. Sometime, after the new millennium, I worked with an intern who wanted to be a TV reporter. Her blonde, cascading hair, glistening nails, and vacant stares belied the fact she was a junior at Northwestern University, home to one of...

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A Stitch In Time

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:40:00 +0000

This dress makes me feel like Cinderella. The last stitches are getting sewn as you read this... Tonight I get to go to the ball! I wonder if Prince Charming is an opera fan?

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The Runaway Bunny

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:08:00 +0000

Running away was always a romantic prospect when I was nine. There my mom would be, chasing me around the house to make sure I'd brushed my teeth and washed my face at bedtime. At nine-years-old, this is torture akin to waterboarding at Abu Ghraib, only with a tube of Crest toothpaste and an...

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Fire Escape Family

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:16:00 +0000

Two beautiful mourning doves have taken up residency in my potted garden. The mama is usually hunkered down in a navy blue pot flourishing with a wild weed. She tends to two, tiny eggs that glow with the most gorgeous color of ecru when sunshine hits their shells. Dad flies back and forth...

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Put Art Everywhere

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:23:00 +0000

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Apostropocolypse

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:36:00 +0000

Stop what you're doing. Seriously. Put the Google Machine down a minute, and let's talk apostrophes. You know. That thing that's sandwiched between the "let" and the S that follows. The English language is under a bloody siege, and apostrophes are the Third Reich of grammatical...

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Everybody Loves Ranch

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:27:00 +0000

Fridays should be funny, right? It's the end of the week, and we deserve a good laugh after hours of working, volunteering and otherwise going through the motions. This is the funniest video I've seen in a long time. I hope you enjoy it, too. Kate's Random Musings by Kate the Great...

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These Boots Are Made For Wearing

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:21:00 +0000

The smell of leather wafted out the door like an aromatic dust cloud. It was my last morning in Austin, Texas, and I decided to call up the cab and ask the driver to pick me up 30 minutes earlier than planned. "I need to buy a pair of cowboy boots before I set out for Cincinnati," I told the...

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Keep Austin Weird

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:16:00 +0000

So much to say about my trip to the Lone Star State. I'd never been to Texas (save for a trip through Bush Intercontinental Airport in January), so I didn't know what to expect. If you've been to Austin, you know it's glorious - and full of clever, creative, weird people like this...

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Never Ever

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:49:00 +0000

I've said it before - I was a victim of brutal bullying. So, imagine my surprise and bittersweet satisfaction when I came upon a new anti-bullying music video that was shot in the very halls of my old, Cincinnati-area school. The culture of the 1990s was vastly different than it was today...

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The Puppets As News?

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:24:00 +0000

Should newsrooms resort to Kermit's cousins to deliver news when they can't get access to a courtroom? It's an interesting idea. One of my former tv colleagues called himself a "meat puppet" because he sat at an anchor desk and delivered stories I wrote and others shot and...

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And The Oscar Goes To...

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:13:00 +0000

What do a gold statue, a bottle of whiskey, and a fancy dress have in common? The answer wasn't obvious to me, either, as I stared at the unusual press kit with the caramel golden bottle. I've signed on to serve as a Social Media Correspondent for the People Working Cooperatively official...

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Social Graces

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:13:00 +0000

Emily Post's world, this is not. Long gone are the days of calling cards and white gloves. In many cases, this is a great blessing. So much of yesteryear's formality was overwrought with social classism and a severe disparity of wealth that got in the way of much of what America truly values...

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Love, By Example

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:40:00 +0000

Where there is love, there is hope. And where there's hope, there's love. I think about the former, and I am reminded by my parents. Next month, they'll celebrate 37 years of marriage. That's a monumental number when I recall how they have overcome medical calamities, the upheaval of moving...

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Rise From The Ashes

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:26:00 +0000

Life has a way of healing itself. That was one of the messages I garnered from a national speaker I had the pleasure of enjoying last weekend at a volunteers' retreat. The astute woman first started by describing a broken arm. When you break your arm in a tumble, there's actually very little...

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1215

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:50:00 +0000

It's time to pop some bottles in Over-the-Rhine. 1215 Wine Bar and Coffee Lab is giving things a test run with some private soft openings this weekend. We stepped in to try a couple wines and peruse their lean but tasty menu. We both had a lot to celebrate so we started with a flight...

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Triumph in Over-the-Rhine

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:23:00 +0000

"Many hands make light work." It's a saying I whisper to myself sometimes when I'm working on a challenging task. Sometimes it's a laborious work project, other times it's an effort on behalf of a volunteer organization. Long ago I discovered the burden of any chore can be made better when you...

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It's Easy Being Green (A Special Offer)

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:17:00 +0000

I'm white knuckling it as I hold on to my 2012 resolution. Truth be told, I didn't make any resolutions. I just grew resolved to stick to my circa June 2011 running plan and healthier diet. In addition to my two or three-times a week running habit, I long made a conscious effort to enjoy more...

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Red. Hot. Contest.

noreply@blogger.com (Kate The Great) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:03:00 +0000

I've always had a love-hate relationship with red lipstick. The fiery, passionate hue has long been favored by Hollywood. Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe all loved red. Hayworth loved a real red, Taylor made candy apple red her signature shade, and Monroe's pout featured...

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