Hustle and bustle !  No time to do everything !  Here is a helpful cooking tip for you !  Just kidding.  I have no idea how to cook; other than the basic of basics.  Tonight I had popcorn for dessert.  It was delicious.  I recommend popcorn.  I'm going to stick with my day jobs: designing for hospitality and the home, painting oil portraits, and framing.  And yes, the counter tops in my kitchen are marble.  I will have to honor the marble and learn how to cook.  Happy Thanksgiving Eve 2017!

Someone in my (very large McCooey Magnier Fagan Henderson​) family has already purchased a Christmas tree!  What?  It’s a tabletop Christmas tree but nonetheless!  My first thought was: “What! It’s too soon! We haven’t even celebrated Thanksgiving yet!” ; a reaction anyone who was a child growing up on the east coast mid-century would have.  But then, on second thought, I realized what a great idea this actually really is.  I mean, I’ve already started listening to A Charlie Brown Christmas, so why not begin decorating to accompany it?  Upon further thought, I appreciated the idea because to buy a tabletop Christmas tree now will eliminate a rushed experience in a mere week and will bring all the holidays into view (and scent) right away to enjoy.  So I went to a few places where I like to shop online that sell live (not fake, but beware some are an arrangement of boughs) tabletop Christmas trees to share with you.  I’m putting my order in now ;) Gobble Gobble !

"World AIDS Day" was part of the first global health day that began in 1988.   Now "World AIDS Day" is held on December 1st of each year and it's huge.  It "is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died. "  .Just about every country and community has an initiative going on today. I want to be a part of it and I thought you would too.  

Here in the U.S., since 1985, there have been Presidential Proclamations signed to officially mark this day and bring us into the global effort. Yesterday President Barack Obama did the same. I posted a copy of the proclamation on ww.RichardMcCooey.org.  "World AIDS Day" is one of the 8 official global public health campaigns marked by the World Health Organization see: www.WHO.int. RED is Bono's initiative, asking companies like Apple.com to donate all their sales today to the effort.  650 babies are born every single day with the HIV virus in Africa, and Bono believes that suffering can be brought down to zero.  While we can't donate every dollar in sales today, we can donate a percentage; I know every dollar makes a difference.  I know it adds up.

So, if you can make your purchase on our site today, that would be great.  Why?  Because it matters.  Our check will be made payable to: The United Nations Foundation, in Richard's name, see: www.RichardMcCooey.org for more information. 


-Karen 12/1/2014, 8:26 a.m.