http://doublenickels.org Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:18:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://doublenickels.org/2012/02/13/celebrating-70-years-with-high-tea-and-with-high-style/ http://doublenickels.org/2012/02/13/celebrating-70-years-with-high-tea-and-with-high-style/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:08:54 +0000 Double Nickels http://doublenickels.org/?p=1491

Recently I had a chance to celebrate my 70th birthday with my good friend JC Hayward, who recently reached a milestone of her own as she celebrates her 39th year as news anchor at WUSA9. Click here to connect to JC’s webpage, and to check out the photos from our High Tea! —Antoinette Ford     [...]]]> http://doublenickels.org/2012/02/13/celebrating-70-years-with-high-tea-and-with-high-style/feed/ 0 http://doublenickels.org/2012/02/09/celebrating-seniors/ http://doublenickels.org/2012/02/09/celebrating-seniors/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:08:06 +0000 Double Nickels http://doublenickels.org/?p=1456

  By Antoinette Ford When I was about ten years old my grandfather’s mother (Grandmom Mathis) would visit my grandmother’s mother, (Grandma Phyllis) every Sunday after church. They were both in their 60s—at a time when 60 was considered old! Yet they were good friends who were eager to maintain a close bond between the [...]]]> http://doublenickels.org/2012/02/09/celebrating-seniors/feed/ 0 http://doublenickels.org/2012/01/23/hanami-through-the-eyes-of-seniors/ http://doublenickels.org/2012/01/23/hanami-through-the-eyes-of-seniors/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:40:33 +0000 akitchen http://doublenickels.org/?p=1394

The Double Nickels Theatre Company has been invited to be an official participant in the 2012 Centennial celebration of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.  We will stage a production called “Hanami Festival - Through the Eyes of Seniors” which will highlight the true stories from Seniors about their memories of Spring time in Washington in earlier [...]]]> http://doublenickels.org/2012/01/23/hanami-through-the-eyes-of-seniors/feed/ 0 http://doublenickels.org/2012/01/23/official-participant-in-the-2012-national-cherry-blossom-festival/ http://doublenickels.org/2012/01/23/official-participant-in-the-2012-national-cherry-blossom-festival/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:19:18 +0000 akitchen http://doublenickels.org/?p=1388

]]> http://doublenickels.org/2012/01/23/official-participant-in-the-2012-national-cherry-blossom-festival/feed/ 0 http://doublenickels.org/2012/01/23/call-for-stories-for-the-national-cherry-blossom-festival/ http://doublenickels.org/2012/01/23/call-for-stories-for-the-national-cherry-blossom-festival/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:26:56 +0000 akitchen http://doublenickels.org/?p=1367

The Double Nickels Theatre Company has been selected to participate in the centennial celebration of the National Cherry Blossom Festival beginning March 20 through April 27, 2012. This year the Festival will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the gift of trees from the country of Japan to the United States. The Double Nickels Theatre Company [...]]]> http://doublenickels.org/2012/01/23/call-for-stories-for-the-national-cherry-blossom-festival/feed/ 0