One more birthday celebration

Gail and Kate Anne
Originally uploaded by Kate Anne

Gail and Kate Anne: find time for some personal peace and fun. Accentuating the positive creates a positive vibration which helps heal the world. [Read Dr. Wayne Dyer's Being in Balance and join us in being the answer.] Gail took me to Teodora Restaurant at 141 E. 57th in New York City -- try their salmon!

A little birthday cake

A little birthday cake
Originally uploaded by Kate Anne

Following take-out Chinese food, we celebrated my birthday with Kat's yummy little chocolate cake ordered from Cheryl&Co., complete with candles, no less! -- More birthday pictures on my Flickr.com site.

Flowers and more celebration

Birthday tulips

Michael Dylan and Gina sent Mom Kat tulips.


Birthday roses

Krista had given Mom Kat roses.


Kate Anne, Joan, and Jane

And on Saturday night Joan Pagan and Jane Levy took Kate Anne to ANOTHER restaurant, this time the wonderful Italian restaurant, Trattoria L'Incontro, 21-76 31st Street in Astoria, Queens, New York City.

FW: Celebrating Kate Anne and Anne

FW: Celebrating Kate Anne and Anne
Originally uploaded by Kate Anne

"Happy birthday mom!", say Katerina Lyn and Michael Dylan from Anne's birthday party in Cleveland Ohio to New York City's Mom Kat.

Kate Anne and Krista

Kate Anne and Krista
Originally uploaded by Kate Anne

Celebrating:) -- Kate Anne and Krista, with two bouquets of birthday flowers: Wow! Dinner was at Blossom at 187 Ninth Avenue, New York City: yummy!

DFA-NYC's David and Dan

DFA-NYC's David and Dan
Originally uploaded by Kate Anne

Democracy For America's local Democracy For NYC [DFNYC] meets in Sunnyside at The Grind on the first Wednesday of the month. Here is activist blogger David Quintana with Dan Jacoby.

Bloomies, Tuesday night

Bloomies, Tuesday night
Originally uploaded by Kate Anne

Where's the bus? Where's Joe? Post Miss Pettigrew thoughts. (Charming period film, well-acted, touching, fun: see it.)

Iran, BAM 6.6 and Friends

Iran, BAM 6.6 and Friends
Originally uploaded by Kate Anne

Out for activism and a moving film on Iran, BAM 6.6 -- and talking afterwards were Helga Halaki and Gayle Cronin. The film was part of an evening sponsored by Fellowship of Reconciliation and it documents the beauty and compassion of Iran through the eyes of a Jewish American woman and others affected by the severe Bam earthquake several years ago. The unspoken theme, given today's political climate, is how devastating an attack on Iran would be to the Iranian people and their ancient culture. Get the film and see it. We bought it to show friends. And I also picked up a must-read book by the evening's speaker, Fatemeh Keshavarz, which she autographed: Jasmine and Stars -- Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran. Quite a lot to talk about. More to do. [Some pictures from the evening will be posted on Flickr.]

Impeachment Update

Different things happening on the impeachment front. From ImpeachThem.com, I took an MSNBC poll on impeachment which has over a half million people voting for impeachment and only 9.1% saying No. Add your voice! Someone from the group called Thom Hartmann to remind everyone to email NH representative Betty Hall to support the New Hampshire resolution for impeachment. Obviously, NH folks have more voice but ours can be heard too as they can speak up for us:

Representative Betty Hall, the sponsor of HR24, needs huge support from everywhere in order to succeed. We ask YOU to send your message to the legislators of New Hampshire telling them for the sake our country, vote for HR 24! Send your message to I.Support.HR24@gmail.com TODAY! Rep. Hall asks all residents of New Hampshire to be sure to state in their emails where they live, as in Brookline, NH, and the NH emails will be printed for every legislator. MORE INFO

Finally, as of now WexlerWantsHearings.com has collected 230730 signatures for impeachment. Sign there if you haven't already. Please do what you can to quash any more damage from the Bush-Cheney regime, end this notion of imperial presidencies, and to restore the rule of law to our country. Thanks!