Bonnie Carroll's Life Bites

The Exciting News is Beginning January 9, 2025 I will be premiering a new Travel/Leisure website www.CoastingwithBonnie.com and we welcome you to join us, sign-up, follow us and revel in this new stylish and informative site featuring new content on traveling the world by land and sea with ease. We are also premiering a podcast by the same name. look for it February 1, 2025 - Coasting with Bonnie.com!

"Don't look or wait for love. Generate it. Love has got to know your spiritual address before it can show up in your life. When you generate love, it's like a neon sign proclaiming, 'I AM love!' Let us choose to live in love today!" ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith

We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. We have some great traditional recipes and family destinations for December, along with some wonderful reviews on US & Canadian favorites. Much of this issue is filled with travel, food, entertainment events, and spa pleasures featuring products for home enjoyment.

Our Holiday Gift guide has some great gift ideas for friends and family, and visit "Health Minded" to read inspiring tips diets that will enhance your immunity to coronavirus. Sips has a stories on Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's former home in Puerto Vallarta now Casa Kimberly and the Iguana Restaurant & Tequila Bar, and other delightful haunts for cocktails from around the world.

Please enjoy the December hotel/chef profile on La Chateau Frontenac, Quebec City, Quebec Canada for a colorful fall view of a grand world hotel, and some travel adventures on the Viking Star cruising tips for staying healthy traveling along the Canadian and New England coasts.

Exciting nights for a Jazzy Christmas Experience at Pearl Social in Santa Barbara Funk Zone 2023.

It's Back . . . Santa Barbara's Kitchy Christmas at Pearl Social in the Santa Barbara Funk Zone!

January brings the Golden Globes, and the Oscar Movie lovers are all busy talking about all the hot films being considered for the 95th Oscars in February. See Tinseltown Tidbits for details on Award Show schedules. The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is scheduled for 2024. For details visit www.sbiff.org.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and ABC announced the Oscars© will be held Sunday, March 2025.

We have a special LBN recipe for holiday enjoyment in Culinary Coup and a fun story on sharing the joy through fine books in BookBites Section. See Holiday news in Travel and Culinary Coup, with wine ideas and more in SIPS.

The annual Macy's Thanksgiving and Christmas Parade that will feature the

amazing Snoopy float, and dancing Rockettes is always a holiday joy. I always enjoy the lighting event at Rockefeller Center in New York. Hope you can participate in your local holiday parades this year. The Rockefeller Center tree provides the ideal backdrop for skaters enjoying the famous rink.

I hope you will join us in remembering our soldiers fighting in foreign lands and pray for their safe return to their families and for the safe return of the hostages being held in the middle-east. God bless them, and God bless America in these challenging times. May the flag of freedom fly now and forever. Please continue to pray for peace.

Joyous Noel to you, your family and dear friends. Thank you to all who continue to follow LBN, and to the many readers and advertisers who have supported us - keep coming back. LBN will celebrate its 21st birthday in January 2024.

See our gift section for giving ideas. Culinary Coup & Sips Sections for Food & Wine ideas. See great health suggestions in our Health Minded Section this month.

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