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Goodbye, sweet, gentle spirit

March 13, 2014 By Carol Cassara 21 Comments

  He possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man, without his Vices.  This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Little He, a Dog.  . . .

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Filed Under: Dogville Tagged With: Life Lessons, Riley, RIP

Turning the page, saying goodbye

February 28, 2014 By Carol Cassara 32 Comments

It was the late 1980s, before Starbucks, and before Borders and Barnes and Noble. A girlfriend and I spent quite a bit of time in Capitola and I became acquainted with the Capitola Book Cafe.  I was enthralled. A bookstore that served coffee drinks and pastries? I'd never seen a place like . . .

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Bettie Page: an American original

January 15, 2014 By Carol Cassara 7 Comments

This post has an adult theme. If this offends you, please do not go further.         Back in the day, pin-up girl Bettie Page became famous for photos with a BDSM theme. There was no naughtier girl in the early to mid-1950s. It's ironic that such a repressed age would produce . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Stylin' Tagged With: 50s, Blog, Celebrities, Entertainment, Photography, RIP, Sex, Sexuality

RIP poem

October 3, 2012 By Carol Cassara Leave a Comment

Poem upon friend's death Poem by Langston Hughes I loved my friend. He went away from me. There's nothing more to say. The poem ends Soft as it began- I loved my friend. . . .

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, langston hughes, Poetry, RIP, Writing

Saying goodbye to one of our own

August 21, 2012 By Carol Cassara 5 Comments

I live in a community that cares for one another, watches out for one another and has over-the-back-fence discussions online with one another. That's right. Online. It's inspirational, the extent to which members of our neighborhood e-list, some 3,000+ of us, step up to help each other. We take in . . .

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, My neighbors, RIP, Willow Glen

RIP, Miss Webster

August 6, 2011 By Carol Cassara 2 Comments

It is with tears in my eyes that I report that my beloved first writing teacher, Miss Alice Webster, passed away on Thursday, just a month after I visited her in Rochester. Her kind niece wrote me the news this afternoon, saying that she had declined quickly, "although the joyful countenance rarely . . .

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, Inspiration, RIP, Rochester New York, Writers, Writing

Elizabeth Taylor: we’ll miss you

March 23, 2011 By Carol Cassara Leave a Comment

Elizabeth just glows in this photograph with the love of her life, Richard Burton.She looks like she was at the happiest stage of her life.It's how I'd like to remember her.That laugh. That mature beauty.And that love that transcended time and place.Liz was a beautiful, sensual creature who lived . . .

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Celebrities, Entertainment, Film, RIP

Where bluebirds fly

January 30, 2011 By Carol Cassara Leave a Comment

I'm sad tonight— sad for Jim and sad for those who loved him— and maybe even a little puzzled— what keeps coming to mind is this beautiful cover sung by Iz, who also died young. . . .

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Jim Nowak, in memoriam

January 29, 2011 By Carol Cassara 3 Comments

The world lost a caring teacher and humanitarian yesterday, when my high school classmate, Jim Nowak, died in Kenya, where he spent five months each year volunteering his time. He was hit head-on in a traffic accident on his way back from a visit to an orphanage. A retired teacher in the Rochester, . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Trippin' Tagged With: Blog, jim nowak death, New York, RIP, Rochester, Rochester New York, United States

Elizabeth Edwards, RIP

December 8, 2010 By Carol Cassara Leave a Comment

Like many others, I thought she had more time. That the announcement of her stopping treatment was a foreshadowing of something that could happen soon, but not within a day or two.In the midst of my shock, what strikes me is this:Elizabeth was not an easy person. I get it. Lots of us are like . . .

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, Celebrities, Film, Opinions, Politics, RIP

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