MonTalk©
with Ingrid Lemme

Dream Quote of the Month: " I add a prayer, I add a song” –Philip Shabazz

Dream Woman of the Month:

Ronnie Monte, a volunteer of  ‘Global Volunteers’ which took her to Lima, Peru where she worked in an orphanage called PPA or Puerto Cultorio Perez Aranibar. It houses 550 children from infancy to 17 years old. Her group assisted in physical therapy, playing, teaching English and helping in any way they could. Some of the money they spent to travel with Global Volunteers went towards a field trip for the kids to a zoo, a new hot water heater for the three year olds and paint and carpet for a rec-room that they rebuilt for the teen boys. Watch her interview on the American Dreams® TV Show 03/04 @ 6pm, 03/07 @  7pm, 03/08 @ 2pm on channel 78.

Dream Man of the Month:

Ronnie Desiderio 45, a massage therapist (at Gurney’s Spa) who rowed in a small boat, (The ORCA, built on Shelter Island) with 3 others across the ocean and is now writing a book about his unique, at times very dangerous experience. Watch his interview on the American Dreams® TV Show 3/11 @ 6pm,  3/14 @ 7 pm and  3/15 @ 2 pm .  RONNIE’s efforts  were to support the ‘ Life Rolls On’ Foundation. The race started in the Canary Islands off Africa's west coast and finished after 3000 miles in the Caribbean.

Best Friends of the Month: Tim and Tom

Organization of the Month: Global Volunteers

Dream Business of the Month: Uihleins Marina

Dream Teen of the Month: Shannon

Dream Kid of the Month: Kasia Balducci Kirmser

Dream Boat of the Month: Peggy Sue

Movie of the Month: 10,000 BC

Dream Teacher of the Month: Jack Perna

Montauk VIP of the Month: Watch Donna Hadjipopov on the American Dreams® Show TV Channel 78  4/08 @ 6pm ,  4/11 @ 7pm,  4/12  @ 2 pm.

Dream Media of the Month: The News Hours on PBS

Dream Author of the Month: Philip Shabazz. Long before he became a poet, he was a singer/songwriter. As a young person, he decided to use his musical talent, to do something he loved: sing and write songs. He got busy. Soon, he was singing in the school chorus. He harmonized with soul music he heard on the radio. Inspired by the magic of song, he was on cloud nine about the possibility of "making it" in the music business. He had one problem. He was much too shy.…www.phillipshabazz.net

Dream Book of the Month:When the Grass was Blue by Philip Shabazz.

When The Grass Was Blue is a story told through the eyes of Kathoor, son of a working class family in Louisville, Kentucky, who relates the trials and hardships of growing up in the South during the Civil Rights era of the 1960's. On the surface, it looks like he's sheltered in a stable home. It's a happy time in his life. He's the youngest child in a family of four: a working father, a faithful mother, and a cool big brother. But as dysfunction in his family grows evident, Kathoor begins to see their familiar closeness slip away. He worries about his mother, he misses his brother, and he learns the hard way about his father's drinking abuses. Worse, he starts to feel like he's losing the most important people in his life. Kathoor must adjust to the crisis in his family by finding strength in his own heart.

Dream Couple of the Month: Michael Oransky and Maria Labastida, they got married on March 1st, 2008!  

Dream Artist of the Month:  The Morris Brothers (as seen on the David Letterman Show) for their song about Montauk. www.MorrisBrothers.biz  Watch the Morris Brothers 04/15 @ 6pm, 04/18 @ 8pm, 04/19 @ 2pm.

Dream Website of the Month: www.bulgarusa.com  Amazingly beautiful products, manufactured in Bulgaria, but the story began in Montauk.

Never forgotten: Nick Montemarano

Thank you for picking up the paper and reading my column. I have become kind of complacent, writing for so many years, that I have to congratulate you on your great taste in regards to down to earth writing ;)  - I don’t use big words, because I don’t know them.

Last month on my American Dreams® TV Show (which we are filming at Gurney’s Inn) I interviewed guests who either live on the East End or having a very interesting  affiliation with us. Valentines and Presidents week has come and gone, and we celebrated our anniversary on the 14th – we are now 10 years married.  Can you believe it ?  I am truly looking forward to Easter, and not just because I always get a chocolate bunny, I want to see greens and pretty pastels and ride my bike around Fort Pond.

I’ve become a political junkie this past winter; I follow the race between the 2 dems and the grey elephant closely. Would I like a woman for President ? You bet. Its time. But. Hillary? I meet Hillary several years ago personally, and like many others, I fell for her ‘one on one’ charm. It was at an LIA breakfast, Long Island Association, that is – and “Mrs President” was the speaker. LIA President Matt Grossen, still running the show today, was sitting with Hilly on the dais, and was trying to get me to shut up. I had waited impatiently until it was my turn at the ‘open mike’. “Good Morning, Mrs. President!” I opened, 1100 people silenced, “We (myself and 9 other ladies who represented Gurney’s Inn) left Montauk this morning at 5 am to meet you here today, and I stopped at 7-Eleven in Southampton and bought you a red rose, which I would like to give you in person…”

We got our private audience later that morning with Mrs. Hillary Clinton, the first lady of the United States of America and we ladies, (republican and democrats alike) were fascinated by her presence. After all, she was the woman married to the world’s most powerful man. I told her then that I thought she should run for presidency some day  and invited her to experience the seawater spa at Gurney’s Inn (where I work as marketing director)  first hand, which she promised to do. She never did. I was for the longest time upset about that, I called her office at the White House and reminded her staff on her promise to experience a ‘day of beauty’ at the United States’ most famous and only true  Thalasso Spa. Eventually she did visit the ‘affluent’ Hamptons and Montauk’s historic lighthouse, but her staff didn’t schedule the ‘day of  beauty’. Bad mistake, if you ask me, bad mistake. All those high paid political advisors should be fired, or never get hired at the first place. Its momentum, that counts.  Though I did receive a very nice ‘Thank You’ letter from the White House for the red rose, signed by the First Lady. I don’t care if the person, that I feel has what it takes to run our country, is white, black, female, male, republican, independent or democrat. As a human being, working woman, mother and wife, I care first and foremost about our desolate economy, about all the people without health insurance, foreign policy and our role in Global Warming. We are not alone on the planet.  Hilly is running for President, and I would love to call her some day, righteously, “Mrs. President” – because she has, what it takes!

~ Love Ingrid

Ingrid Lemme is Director of PR and Marketing for Gurneys Inn Resort & Spa in Montauk. She is show hostess of her talk show American Dreams® which airs on WVVH TV, 78 Hamptons Television Tuesdays 6:00 pm, Fridays at 7:00 pm and Saturdays at 2pm. Send her e-mail to ilemme@mac.com, or a letter to PO Box 752, Montauk N.Y. 11954 if you like.

The American Dreams® Show is aired on Hamptons TV, CHANNEL 78 a commercial cable and broadcast TV station serving New York and Long Island and are watched world-wide in real-time via Live-Web-Stream on http://www.WVVH.com. The American Dream® Show is also available on: Time Warner Cable's video-on-demand system.

NEW Airing times: Tuesdays 6:00 pm, Fridays 7:00 pm & Saturdays 2:00 pm