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Author Archives: Ellen Ross
Sex Tape
True confessions time, Dear Reader. Somewhere floating around in the ether there exists a certain rather racy video of me and another person- a guy- and well… Not to put too fine a point on it- We’re in bed and … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, pop culture, University of Wisconsin
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Cookie Monster
In the cookie beginning there was the Word. And the word was Salerno. Eating a Salerno Butter Cookie is probably my first lifetime cookie experience. How well I remember those butter-favored pinwheels nestled in their plastic sleeves. Their Art Deco … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Childhood, Cookies, Maurice Lenell Bakery, Salerno Bakery
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Was She Or Wasn’t She?
Okay, Dear Readers. I need your help. Something has been driving me nuts and maybe you can solve the mystery and resolve my problem. See the blurry photograph that heads this post? I want to know who that woman is. … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Helen Mirren, Movies
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Ave Atque Vale
(Photo courtesy of Bruce Robbins a.k.a. Ribs) You may know some of these guys, Dear Readers. They were Glencoe’s Active Screw Softball Team champs in 1966. (As I recall, the team motto was “There’s no screw like an active screw.” … Continue reading
Posted in John Barnard, New Trier High School, Nostalgia
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What’s New(s)?
In case you don’t recognize him, that was “the most trusted man in America.” Walter Cronkite. For nineteen years, he helmed the CBS Evening News and we got the scoop on all the world’s doings straight from him. He was … Continue reading
Posted in News, Walter Cronkite
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Here Lies…
Do you read obituaries? I do. The habit started in childhood with the “Milestones” section of Time Magazine and I’ve just kept it up. But over time- like everything else- obituaries have changed. Newspaper obits used to be straight forward. The … Continue reading
Posted in Fake Obituary
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Darwin
(Photo by Natasha Tofias) That’s yours truly, Dear Readers, being “Gran” on my annual Christmas trip to Boston. And those are my grandchildren- Carly (Caroline) age one and a half in my lap and Sam age three and half on … Continue reading
Posted in Grandchildren, Grandparents
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The Gift of The Magi
Happy New Year, Dear Readers! Hope 2018 is a fabulous, happy, healthy year for all of us. And to get us in the spirit of things, let’s start off with a holiday tale. A 2017 Christmas Fable … So a … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Echo Dot
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P.O.’ed
A Cautionary- and True- Holiday Play Dramatis Personae Ellen, the perky heroine Edna, the seventy-five year old lifelong postal employee Cliff, the Post Master All the action takes place at Window Number One in a post office in a small … Continue reading
Posted in pop culture, Post Office, Uncategorized
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Linked In
…So a couple of weeks ago I was at Leslie Hindman working a fine jewelry preview. (A preview runs for five days ahead of the auction so that clients can check out the dazzling goodies in person.) This was a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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