It is believed that the first president to use the term “my fellow Americans” was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his Inaugural Address of 1933.
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Roxanne Tellier – My Fellow Americans
Posted in COVID 19, Health, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags alternative truth, American Rescue Plan, anti-democratic, ‘essential workers, Big Lie, Canada, CERB, Civil War, COVID 19, DBAWIS, Democrat, Dundurn Press, Even So, Fox News, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, hazard pay, Joe Biden, Lauren B. Davis, My Fellow Americans, My Pillow Guy, North America, pandemic, Republicans, RINO, Rudy Giuliani, segarini, stop the steal!, Tellier, trumpCult, White House on March 7, 2021 by segariniChef Tom – My Good Husband Dan
Posted in Family, Food, Health, music, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags Beethoven, BGT, Bob Segarini, Britain’s Got Talent, Cello, Chef Tom, classical music, comfort food, dairy free, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Falastin, gluten free, Good Husband Dan, Hipp Kitchen, Kanneh-Masons, Meatless, musical family, musical siblings, Ottolenghi, piano, Recipe, Salad, San Francisco, Side Dish on February 27, 2021 by segariniMy good husband Dan’s birthday is April 1. I know, an April Fools baby. Explains a lot, really. I am counting on nine people being fully inoculated by then (three of us already are, including me), that we’re all on a sunny patio in lovely San Carlos drinking beautiful wine and eating multiple tasty courses over a four hour gathering. I’ve already started the menu.
Here are four highly recommended dishes (these are starters) from my foodiverse.
Thought I’d give you a taste.
Pat Blythe – Some foody tips…..and music
Posted in COVID 19, Food, Health, life, music, Opinion, Recipe, Review with tags baking, Bob Segarini, cooking, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, handy tips, Kirk Reed, luvthemusic, Pat Blythe, Podbean, savoury, Sweet, The Pandemic Interviews – Conversations in a changing time, The Reed Effect on February 24, 2021 by segariniIt’s Sunday morning, the sun is out, and I’m listening to some Pat Metheny and David Blamires. Toss in a little Wichita Lineman, and it’s a smooth, jazzy kind of day.
Fast forward to Tuesday, and at 3am this morning, the final cut of this week’s podcast is ready to be scheduled for publication…..my fifth one. https://luvthemusic.podbean.com This week is my conversation with Kirk Reed from Toronto band The Reed Effect. He talks about time, creativity, shares thoughts on live entertainment and how to become a computer geek…..plus the new album, 1973. My aim is to have a podcast ready every Tuesday morning at 6:01am. So far, so good….but for some reason this particular morning I’m more tired than usual, and my brain has decidedly turned to mush. Only a few synapses firing, so it’s time for that rare and elusive, but decidedly necessary, second cup of morning coffee! It might even segue into a third!!
Roxanne Tellier – The Great Reset
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Big Corporations, Big Government, Big Pharma, Canada, CBC News, Conservative, COVID 19, DBAWIS, Erin O'Toole, global carbon pricing, healthcare, Justin Trudeau, Lily Cole, Lizard People, Meghan Markle, Pierre Poilievre, Prince Harry, quality of life, segarini, Tellier, The Great Reset, World Economic Forum, Yo Yo Ma on February 7, 2021 by segariniI’m still marveling at how much more relaxed the world has become since January 20th Feels like a luxury, not being on high alert every minute of every day, and I’m loving it.
As the fog of negativity lifts, there’s time to look around and marvel at how much our lives have changed, and will be forever changed, by our experiences. There’s no discounting that the very framework of our lives has been reworked by the ravages of COVID-19. Nearly everyone has lost someone dear to them to the virus, and many who became ill with the disease may have healthcare issues impacting them for the rest of their lives.
Peter Talks About Mental Health
Posted in Family, Health, life, Opinion, Review with tags Bell Let's Talk Day, Bob Segarini, Don't Believe a Word I Say, mental health, Mental Illness, Peter Montreuil on January 28, 2021 by segariniToday is “Let’s Talk Day” in Canada, a day when we are encouraged to talk about Mental Health by one of our good “corporate citizens”. I will not mention them by name, I will not give them free advertising. They treated a family member of mine shabbily, made all the more unbearable for me because of my background in Employment Insurance. Loyal Reader, I swore “off them” as a result and am pleased to say that they have absolutely no presence at all in Chez Montreuil.
Pat Blythe – Book report, food porn…..and music
Posted in COVID 19, Food, Health, life, music, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Bob Segarini, cookbooks, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, food porn, Inauguration, luvthemusic, Marion Hilliard, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, President Biden, Vice President Harris on January 20, 2021 by segariniI’m finding more tidbits of material and articles of interest as I go through files, newsfeeds and a rather stocked bookcase in my kitchen. Primarily a home for my many cookbooks, there are odds and sods of non food-related novels, appliance directions, clippings, etc. I find myself, over the years, spending more time dusting them off than actually using them. I confess I am a huge lover of food porn.
Roxanne Tellier – Cogito, ergo sum I think
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, music, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Amazon, America, Brazilian, bubble, Canada, Christmas, cogito ergo sum, COVID 19, DBAWIS, Denmark, Europe, extroverts, holidays, introvert, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, New Year, pandemic, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, Too Good To Go on December 13, 2020 by segarini“So this is Christmas, and what have you done? Another year over. A new one just begun.” (John Lennon/Yoko Ono)
Roxanne Tellier – No Law Just Disorder
Posted in COVID 19, Health, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Adam Skelly, America, ‘Defund the Police’, Big Business, Canada, Coronavirus, COVID 19, DBAWIS, Dundas Square, Etobicoke, freedom, GoFundMe, liberty, pandemic, Parler, public health crisis, Reopening Ontario Act, segarini, Tellier, The Grinch on November 29, 2020 by segariniGenerally, writing about the continuing political clown show in America is more exciting than writing about what are often picayune matters in Canadian politics.
Canada has practically sailed thru the pandemic, in comparison to other countries. We’ve been lucky, overall, and much of that success is because the majority of us are happy to comply with regulations that will help stop the spread of the virus. Things could most definitely have gone much worse.
Pat Blythe – Christmas lockdown…..other stuff and music
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, music, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Canada, CDC, Covid, COVID 19, DBAWIS, Diane Brisbois, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Ford, lockdown, lockdown Peel, lockdown Toronto, luvthemusic, New York Times, non-essential, Ontario, Pat Blythe, Paul Magdar, Retail Council of Canada, Trudeau, Yahoo Finance on November 25, 2020 by segariniThis whole COVID thing is getting long, tiring, confusing and extremely exasperating for most of us. People start to rebel like children in a sandbox who don’t play fair. They confront each other in anger like the bully in the schoolyard. In many instances we seem to live in a rather thoughtless society whose three favourite people seem to be me, myself and I. It doesn’t seem to matter what part of this mudball we inhabit, everyone is infected…..not by the virus, but by fear, bad attitude, frustration, annoyance, (add your own descriptive here). Information, misinformation, ignorance, conspiracy theories, protests and riots, the numbers are over/under inflated/aren’t real….the list goes on. It doesn’t really matter what you believe, it’s affecting all of us. COVID fatigue is real and should have been considered by minds much greater than mine, long before now.