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And Some Days All You Need is a Good Cleaning Lady…
I don’t know how she did it, but the amazing Tilda managed to remove the rhinestone! As the descendant of superstitious Italian and Irish grandparents, I wonder if removing the rhinestone will be a self-fulfilling prophecy, which means I might have just lost my good luck. Sometimes just saying something makes it so. However, like…
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Please Don’t Let Go!
I never meet interesting men on planes. Given all the flying I do, you would think the odds would be in my favor. But it seems there’s a cosmic conspiracy to keep me uncoupled and out of trouble, at least while I’m in the air. In hundreds of thousands of miles logged on various airlines…
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Some Days I Really Miss Having a Man Around…and Some Days Not
Like most women I know, I am self-reliant, independent and opinionated. These are three characteristics that scare the heck out of most men my age. I’m not a rabid feminist. If you must label me at all, call me a pragmatist. When I’m alone I open my own doors, slay my own dragons and gladly…
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Help! I’ve Run Out of Clever Travel Headlines
But that doesn’t mean I’ve run out of travel destinations. Look for posts from the road in January from the UK, Germany, Italy and Las Vegas. And although Vegas may not be its own country like the others, it is somewhat of a wonderland. My goal is one post for every passport stamp. If you…
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Drum Roll, Please…
As promised here’s the first chapter of my next book. It’s the follow up to my first book: Any Color but Beige: Living Life in Color. I’ve created a separate tab at the top of the Home Page. To read it all you have to do is click on the tab that says New Book…
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New Year’s Menu – Humble Pie
Okay, I thought I had a Chapter ready for New Year’s Day. But yesterday my editor returned my draft with so many comments and questions that it may take me another day or two to sort it all out. There’s nothing like all those little red marks to keep a girl humble. Notes to self: …
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many…
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