Aren’t birthdays just the greatest? My motto is, celebrate long, celebrate often, and don’t forget those unbirthdays!!! Birthday Part I: Wednesday evening champagne flight at the Ritz. The girls and a guy or two came out to toast my birth. There was a dashing woman on a nearby couch who had to ask if we…
My friend was at JFK this morning watching her toiletries get uncerimoniously dumped in the trash, the posh potions suddenly liberated from their Saks packaging. A woman behind her exclaimed, “There better be a Kiehl’s in Waco cause I just lost $200 worth of shampoo!” I think we can all relate to the sad loss…
Will todays news of thwarted mass murder and horrible emotional lines at international airports deter you? Have you already canceled a flight? Are you in internal alert?Three weeks til Labor Day and 4 weeks til the 5 year anniversay of 9/11. Has it affected your immediate travel plans?
I don’t speak Spanish that well. As a matter of fact, one could say that I don’t speak it at all. So, when I wan sent a set of Michel Thomas’s Speak Spanish instantly CDs I was not expecting anything amazing to happen. I have taken Spanish at Stanford, gone to Cancun and took classes…
I’m not 20 anymore. Guys do not gratuitously flirt with me now that I am married and in my late thirties. I don’t remember the last time a guy looked at me with boundless passion and undressed me with his eye. Oh, yes, I remember! It was just a few days ago when I was…
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!. Last week 500+ women took to the streets of Oaxaca, Mexico, banging pots and pans as they marched across town to sieze the state run TV station. They held the emplpoyees captive for about 6 hours while they ran a homemade video of an…
It took lots of courage to open the 8-pound FedEx package that was looming in my entryway. It was my edited manuscript and I knew that I had to start working on it ASAP. It is due back to Penguin in 15 days. But, the package was heavy and so were my thoughts about all…