Question of the Day | 05/21/2009 11:00 pm

What are you doing for Memorial Day weekend?

Cynthia McFadden, Candice Bergen and the wOw women share their holiday plans. For further inspiration on what you can do this weekend, revisit what the wOw women did last Memorial Day by clicking here.

Cynthia McFadden | 05/21/2009 11:00 pm

Cynthia McFadden on Memorial Day: 'Lobster Will Be Involved'

My son and I are driving to Maine for my goddaughter’s graduation from Bowdoin College. Her godfather and I are throwing a lunch for her on Saturday. Praying for sun! We’ll then hang out with my mother — who lives on the coast of that beautiful state in a log cabin she and my father built. Whatever we do, there is no doubt, lobster will be involved.

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Liz Smith | 05/21/2009 11:00 pm

Liz Smith to Sleep Through Memorial Day?

I intend to sleep for this holiday. So don’t wake me.

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Joan Ganz Cooney | 05/21/2009 11:00 pm

Joan Ganz Cooney Will Have the Best Houseguest in the World

My husband and I will be in Water Mill with the best houseguest in the world, Joel Schumacher, the movie director. We’ll have quiet lunches and one not so quiet at my stepdaughter’s with lots of kids, and go to a party Saturday night nearby. And tennis, my great love, plus the happiness of summer beginning — and with some sunshine for a change.

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Candice Bergen | 05/21/2009 11:00 pm

Candice Bergen Will Spend Her Time Outside

We are leaving tonight for East Hampton, where we will bike and kayak and walk our dogs on the beach and see a good summer flick.

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Mary Wells | 05/22/2009 12:00 am

Mary Wells Awaits Her Special Visitor

I am in Vancouver where there is no Memorial Day. I did celebrate Queen’s Day without knowing it, but I didn’t meet up with anybody who wanted to talk about this or any other queen. Vancouver is busy, busy, busy getting ready for the Olympics, and if you were here ten years ago you won’t know you are in Vancouver if you come again. It is very glam. And green. And, as in all pre-Olympics towns, wondrous places are being created on all sides.

I bought a small apartment here that has turned out to be bigger than I expected now that the furniture is moving in. A few more weeks and I am going to send you pictures of it and the views. You can ignore me if you choose, but some of you will see why I actually plunked down the cash for a little holiday place here. Last summer I told you about the whales and Bubbles, the seal in Coal Harbor who slept cuddled next to our boat. I can’t find Bubbles but hear she is about and have sent word out that I have goodies waiting for her. News to come.

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Julia Reed | 05/23/2009 5:00 pm

Julia Reed Recaptures Her Youth

Tonight we’re staying in New Orleans where we’ll celebrate the birthday of my friend McGee at her sister Elizabeth’s house. The three of us grew up together in Mississippi and now we celebrate all "family" birthdays at Elizabeth’s great house (where John and I lived for six months while renovating our own monstrosity). I will marinate some Roman steaks, and John, master griller, will cook them and I’ll make a tomato and mozzarella salad and roast some asparagus and we’ll have birthday cake and gelato from this amazing place here called Sucre (check out shopsucre.com for the most fabulous macaroons and handmade chocolates in gorgeous packaging).

Then tomorrow we’ll get in the car and go to Mississippi to be with another of my closest friends from childhood, M.T. Her father, who has been my father’s business partner and best friend for more than 56 years (and is one of the people I love the very, very most in this world), is under the weather, so we are going to do what we always do – gather ‘round and cook and laugh and just be together. And I’m sure at more than one point M.T. and I will slip off to the pool house to smoke and drink wine – as though we are still hiding like we did more than 30 years ago!

I would rather spend a weekend like this than hang in the finest beach house in the world – the older I get, the more I know I had better cherish the people I’m lucky enough to have in my life while we’re still all here. McGee and Elizabeth and M.T. and I are all doubly blessed because we have such continuity – our parents are friends, our extended families are friends. That bedrock love, those layers of shared experience have enriched my life beyond measure and I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.

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Marlo Thomas | 05/24/2009 2:21 pm

Marlo Thomas Celebrates 29 Years of Marriage This Weekend

May 21st was our 29th anniversary so we’ve been celebrating all weekend - a boat ride in the park, some pals for dinner on our terrace, and now biking and barbecuing in CT. 29 years! We can’t believe it. It seems more like 12. Well, on some days!

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Marlo Thomas | 05/24/2009 4:15 pm

Marlo Thomas: How Time Flies

May 21 was our 29th anniversary so we’ve been celebrating all weekend – a boat ride in the park, some pals for dinner on our terrace and now biking and barbecuing in Connecticut. Twenty-nine years! We can’t believe it. It seems more like 12. Well, on some days!

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Judith Martin | 05/24/2009 4:20 pm

Judith Martin: Reading for a Cause

Reading the newspapers. Yes, all weekend long.

It’s not that my lips get tired. The problem is that I’ve already had my vacation (in Venice, where I read the International Herald Tribune and the Gazzettino – but only the Venezia section of the latter and, of course, the daily Berlusconi scandal on the front page). Two weeks’ worth of The Washington Post and The New York Times have piled up in my absence. I will read them all. I’m hoping that this devotion will counterbalance the general abandonment of newspapers and save their lives.

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Very nice Mary, waiting to hear. Myself, I am having a yard sale saturday. Lots of antiques, because this old farm was here in 1889, at least acording to the plot map. Old auto plates back to 1918. Old quilts, lace table covers. Old books like children’s bedtime stories. A 1959 thompson 21 ft., boat with a 40 horse jhonson, complete with a halicrafters marine radio. Wood burning kitchen stove, globe, with bread warmer and water warmer. Glass wash boards. Old crokery jugs and crocks. Ice tongs. Real old radio’s with horse shoe magnet speakers, round top. And alot more. The rest of the week I’ll be taking it as easy as possable.

By Mark Rowe on 05/22/2009 12:52 am

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nothing much really. just finally finishing up some spring cleaning (my fibromyalgia interupted it already darnit), do some freecycling, go see terminator, do some shopping and then p/u my grandson monday morning as usual. same old, same old.

i don’t remember which veterans that memorial day was set for. but i ALWAYS keep all the armed forces and veterans in my prayers. when my kids were in their teens and i had it off i would take them to the golden gate cemetary in san bruno, california and we would look at the headstones and talk about those that died for our freedom. i look forward to it when my grandson gets old enough to understand. it’s a family tradition. my dad was a merchant seaman in the danish navy and on my kids father side they were all navy men and women. so we have strong patriotism in our blood!

By Nancy Pea on 05/22/2009 1:27 am

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Vacuum behind the refrigerator, drop off dry cleaning and, pick-up meds and sundries for a trip at the beginning of June. That’s it…chores and errands. CA

By C A Rose on 05/22/2009 1:29 am

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Will finish planting the garden with lots of help from the little ones. The boys of summer (spring?) are finishing up the baseball season, and so it will be mean several more playoff games - but they are so charming to watch that I don’t mind. Wrap up the kitten raffle whereby Recon, Cochise, Muscle, and Shortcake find new homes, I hope. Take a friend of my husband’s deep into the forest and leave him for a vision quest for a week. I hope I can find him again…..

By Bella Mia on 05/22/2009 4:08 am

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‘Getting Ready’ for my favorite season, the summer. Attention is needed everywhere: lawn, garden, boat, wardrobe. We haven’t attempted a Memorial Weekend away since BC (you all know, before children) because the weather around here often doesn’t co-operate after you nearly kill yourself to get ready to ‘have fun’ for the next three days. This year is no exception: today it will be 90 and tomorrow it’s going to be 66 and rainy and Sunday/Monday look cool and cloudy. Best to just take it slow and steady with summer prep, go to a lovely opening night dinner at our yacht club Saturday, usual family dinner Sunday and catch the Memorial Day parade and observances Monday morning.

By Green Tears on 05/22/2009 6:42 am

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This weekend my husband is off, which is doesnt happen too often on Holiday weekends so were hanging around the house with the family. Brining out our daughters pool and slide & may take the boat out depending on boater traffic. :)

To all the Veterans and Families of Veterans, THANK YOU!

By C Hardy on 05/22/2009 7:06 am

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Going to a garden show on Main Street.

Like C Hardy wrote :

To all the Veterans and their Famillies I owe you a very big THANK YOU. WW2 vets liberated me in1944 the end yet to come and I can still see the tanks roll in. Thank you, old timers. My husband is one of you!!!

By Jeannot Kensinger on 05/22/2009 7:17 am

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Have a wonderful weekend, Jeannot! Enjoy the garden show.

Sent my parents off to Baltimore for 6 days yesterday morning. My neighbor has a limo service and he sent a white stretch limo for their trip to the airport - they looked like they were heading off to the prom! My mother has finally agreed to some in-home help so after they return there will be someone coming in three days a week to help with housework, errands, and whatever else they need - my mother will still enjoy some ‘alone time’ on the two days that Dad goes to his Alz. care. We met the woman on Wednesday and she seemed lovely. She has an enormous challenge in working with my folks and I hope and pray that she succeeds.

By Green Tears on 05/22/2009 7:40 am

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Hi Green Tears, six days or rest for you too and help for Mama on her return. You have your hands full !!!!

Hope you will enjoy a great week end, thanks for answering, Jeannot

By Jeannot Kensinger on 05/22/2009 7:53 am

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Have a great Memorial Day!

By laureen f on 05/22/2009 7:55 am

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Nice work, Laureen.

By Andrea Brandon on 05/22/2009 11:19 am

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3 cheers for laureen f

By Jan Allman on 05/22/2009 9:24 pm

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Visiting our son who gets deployed the day before memorial day. Then driving home.

By Chrome Toe on 05/22/2009 8:00 am

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Our thoughts should be with you, CT!

By Sam Mirando on 05/23/2009 6:57 pm

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My father-in-law was admitted to a Veterans Home recently. We plan to visit with him and take him out to lunch. He served in WWII for six years on the front lines in a tank. We would never leave him alone on Memorial Day.

By Chris Glass` on 05/22/2009 8:20 am