by Bernadette Nason | Feb 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
What does the average woman expect to receive on St. Valentine’s Day? Flowers, chocolates, and champagne come to mind, naughty knickers perhaps. At the very least, a card. I haven’t lived in Great Britain for ages, and haven’t been there on that...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
After months of writing and several weeks of detailed rehearsal with my director, Michael Stuart, the show opens tonight at 8:00 PM at the Hyde Park Theatre. I know many of my blog friends don’t live in Austin and will therefore be unable to join us, but I hope...
by Bernadette Nason | Sep 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Today would’ve been my mother’s 90th birthday. She died suddenly in 2007. She dropped dead of heart failure as she reached for her meditation chair, prayer books in hand. “She wouldn’t have felt a thing,” the doctor confirmed. It was a...
by Bernadette Nason | Jun 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
On my front flowerbed this morning, I spotted a tiny praying mantis, and right alongside it, hanging from another leaf, the ghost of a mantis, which I presume is its recently shed coat. As I watched, a large moth landed on the next stalk. I wondered if the mantis was...
by Bernadette Nason | May 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
On a clear, sunny day exactly eight years ago, my brother and I picked up our mother’s ashes from Steele’s, the funeral directors on Chesil Street, at the bottom of Winchester High Street, just past King Alfie’s statue, over the bridge by the City...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
I must be honest with you. I really hate this song. However, I hate it less now I’ve researched it. Here’s a little back-story from Wikipedia: “Jingle Bells” is one of the best-known and commonly sung American Christmas songs in the world. It...
