Happy Birthday, Sam

Longtime peace and justice activist Sam Oast celebrated his birthday with a return trip to Union Square and dinner at Heartland Brewery. Sam recounted memories of summers past and dear friend Betty Lou Hornick was remembered. (Sam and Betty Lou were mainstays at a Saturday peace vigil at Union Square for years!) Sam still volunteers time at a homeless shelter, gets to the Catholic Worker for various events, attends various NYC demos, is a member of a book club,

and maintains a lovely rooftop garden. Happy birthday, Sam. Glad I could join you for the day!

Peace hugs,
Kate Anne

More Celebrating

Kate Anne, Joan, Jane
One has to take time out to celebrate life, and I did more celebrating on a second night, thanks to my friends Joan Pagan and Jane Levy. This time I went to one of New York City's best Italian restaurants located at 21-76 31st Street in Astoria, Queens: Trattoria L'Incontro. I've posted birthday photos on Flickr.com. And yes, we talked politics, too.

Peace hugs,
Kate Anne


Birthday flowers

Happy Birthday!

Krista and Mom Kat
I just had a grand evening with my adopted daughter Krista Zarakis, my daughter Kat's best friend. After Krista gave me this beautiful bouquet of flowers and took me to Blossom, this great vegan restaurant at 187 Ninth Avenue, New York City, we stopped at my work place to pick up some flowers from MDB. Franklin took a picture of us which I posted to Quick TAKES and Tasty Tidbits and sent to my kids in Cleveland. Kat and her brother Michael Dylan then sent me THEIR photo, which I also posted to Quick TAKES. I will be posting some more to my Flickr.com site, along with some others from the recent St. Patrick's parade. Check it out soon.

Peace hugs,
Kate Anne

P.S. Waiting on our table at Blossom was the terrific and attentative Kinga, who was moonlighting from her personal trainer day job. I've posted a picture of her and Krista as well other birthday photos.


Krista took this of ME