Suzanne Calling

Oops. I was so hungry, I was halfway through my dinner before I even thought to take a picture of it, so I'll raid the web for a reasonable substitute. This is one of my all time favorite sandwiches. If we had to live our lives eating food from only one cuisine, my choice would probably be Greek, and of that give me Gyro first. I even eat fish when seasoned their way. How about you? If you had to choose one cuisine, which would it be?

There's a quiz going around on Facebook for the past month or so. In it, you create a questionnaire about yourself. Mine is very tough. No one has scored 100% on it, so perhaps it's a little TOO tough on my friends. But for fun, I'll put some of the questions up here and it will probably give you a little bit more of a glimpse into who I am. Where did Ed and I meet? a) Bar hopping on LI b) the Mall c) At Nassau d) At a Hess gas station e) At Jones Beach Which band have I seen in concert six times? a) Rush b) Squeeze c) Depeche Mode d) U2 e) Marillion Which is not one of my hobbies? a) Blogging b) Gardening c) Photography d) Cooking e) Reading Of these activities, name the one I didn't do in high school: a) Swim team b) Choir c) Drama d) Newspaper e) Yearbook Which topping will not be on my pizza? a) Pepperoni b) Olives c) Onions d) Peppers e) Pesto 8) What is my all time favorite comfort food? a) R...

Participating in yesterday's July 4th parade brought about some musical questions. Maybe some of you have the same questions. Better yet, maybe you have some answers? -If the movie is titled "The Jazz Singer", why was every single released off the soundtrack NOT jazz? Pondered this as "America" was playing while we waited to step off on the parade route. -Why is it that a lousy song by a so-so singer, because it has an appropriate theme for a holiday, gets played ad nauseum on the holiday? Thought this as I was subjected to Lee Greenwood's " God Bless the USA " over and over. And why should God bless just the USA and not the whole world-or universe, for that matter? -By the same token, why is it that an excellent song gets relegated to just being played leading up to the holiday that is part of the song's subject, even though it was NOT considered a holiday song by the composer? All the thinking of holiday hits and misses made me think o...

Last week, I asked my lovely readers for questions. Several of you rose to the occasion, and today, you'll get some answers! Okay, the first question (well, two questions) come from the lovely Grandy of California. She asks: Ok...on to my question... If you could re-do anything from your past, what would it be? and... Would you do it differently? I gave this one a lot of thought, but I kept coming back to the same things. There are a bunch of things that were spectacular disasters in my life, things that most people would want to redo properly. However, I look at most of my failures as character building. For that reason, there's only one thing that I would have changed. I would have finished up my degree. Here I am, twenty years later, just six credits shy of that Associate's. The reason has been the same over the years-time and money kept me away. There's your answer, Mary. If I could change anything, I would be the first college graduate in the fami...