I’ve spent most of this day trying not to write about my mama, but it didn’t work. Today was her birthday, would have been her 82nd. I’m not sure she would have liked being 82 unless she could still look … Continue reading
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(So Good You Want to) Slap Yo’ Mama
The last time I was in LA for meetings I spied this food truck parked along the street. It must be good. A hundred years ago when I was working for Style Weekly in Richmond, I laughed out loud read...
May 15, 2012 -
Fabulous Rooms #2: Victorian Writing Room at the Greenbrier
This second Fabulous Rooms post is in response to the first (Living Room at Lyford Cay), wherein I solicited favorite rooms from readers. Paige Ward wins a nickel* for submitting the Victorian Writing...
May 12, 2012 -
Desert Blooms, a Labyrinth, and a Little Dust-up
The last few weeks have got me discombobulated and now back in hectic New York, where workmen are hanging on a scaffold outside my office window and apparently in the process of drilling the building ...
May 10, 2012 -
Now THIS is a tag sale… Nina Griscom’s gowns? Carolyne Roehm’s cast-offs?
Count me in. My only regret in attending the tag sale of the century--Elizabeth Taylor's jewels and Albert Hadley's One King's Lane loot notwithstanding--is that most of the clothes will be of a size ...
May 7, 2012
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