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Category Archives: Yale
Happy Super Bowl Sunday from Santa Barbara! Victorian Chick on Fitness (and Instagram)
Ed. Note: The Patriots have won the Super Bowl. I heard on the radio that people eat more on Super Bowl Sunday than Thanksgiving, so if you’re feeling immobilized by whatever decadent food you’ve consumed, here’s a way to atone. … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, St. Augustine, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged Cross-Training, Diet, Ellliptical, equinox, fitness, gwyneth paltrow, Patriots, santa barbara, SBAC, Strength Training, SuperBowl, swimming, upper east side
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A Hot, Lazy Weekend in Santa Barbara: Reflections on Fletch Nearly Three Decades Later, Carpinteria State Beach, and Happy Vaping
It’s warm in Santa Barbara this weekend, just shy of oppressive at 3PM. A light breeze wafts in through the windows looking out onto the ocean in the distance. Ollie and Emma are lounging on the deck in the shade, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Film, Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, St. Augustine, Travel, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged 1980s, 1984 Olympics, Chevy Chase, christopher commission, crossroads, Fletch, Harold Faltermeyer, hollywood, LAPD, Patrick's Roadhouse, psychoanalysis, relationships, santa barbara, santa monica, sex, Stephanie Mills
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The Problem with Mannequins Circa 2014: A Rare Note on Body Image and Weight in Middle Age (300th Victorian Chick Blog!)
Ed. Note: Yesterday I wrote the better part of a blog about Robin Williams, genius and mental illness, but because it’s a more academic (that is, allusive and exegetical) blog than usual and my printer is disconnected from my MacBook, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Relationships, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged bicoastal brunette, body image, depression, eating disorders, feminism, feminists, fitness, health, kathleen rooney, live nude girl, Naomi Wolf, psych meds, psychoanalysis, psychology, Robin Williams, therapy, toni bentley, weight, yale
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Simple Pleasures: A Perfect Cheeseburger, A Grapefruit Mimosa, A Fun Manicure/Pedicure and a Funny YouTube Video (My First on Boyfriend’s Channel about Gun Maintenance, Collectible Knives and More)
Thanks to all my readers for the wonderful feedback on the 3rd anniversary blog! I included links to a range of pieces on Huffington Post, Weekly Standard, Patch, and Victorian Chick, hoping to provide a representative sample of the many topics I cover. Except … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Food & Wine, St. Augustine, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged About Last Night, American Ale, Beer, C and J Nails, Eureka! Burger, Grapefruit Mimosas, Not Vegetarian, santa barbara, Soul Cycle Preview, trader joe's
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Thoughts on Victorian Chick’s 3rd Anniversary: Writing for Love and Identity, Dealing with Haters, and Getting a Real Estate License to Work as Relocation Consultant
Last week marked three years of Victorian Chick. I’ve been too busy to think of an anniversary blog which does justice to the role it plays not just in my everyday or social life, but the way in which it … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Politics, Relationships, St. Augustine, Theater, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
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Winterpearls Jewelry Trunk Show Score and a Dodgers Game with Brother (Second Ballgame of my Life)
I’m going to the second professional baseball game of my life today. Baseball isn’t my thing, but I did have fun in 2012 when saw the Dodgers play the Mets at the gorgeous and newly renovated Dodger stadium. Well, play … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged Dodger Stadium, dodgers, New York, Pulino's, Siblings, upper east side, yale
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Why This Middle-Aged Woman Loved the Facebook Movie: A Response Alexis Kleinman/Highlights of First Week in NYC
I. Eight Days in New York. More happens–more social interaction, more culture, more random stimulation, not to mention more professional networking–in New York City than any place I’ve been or lived. I’m prepared to believe that Paris, London, and a … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Literature, Music, Politics, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged Agozar, Alec Baldwin, alexis kleinman, Art Bar, bemelman's, bergdorf goodman, bicoastal brunette, Burger and Barrell, cafe carlyle, delicatessen, Dept of Speculation, dixieland jazz, Duplex, e-cigarettes, East Village, Facebook movie, food, Henley Premium Vapor, Henley Vaporium, huffiington post, Jenny Offill, Joe Allen, lex bar and books, lorin stein, MacDougal Street, McNally Jackson, new york city, New York Magazaine, novels, secondhand scores, SoHo, talia eisenberg, Vive la Crepe, woody allen
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Thoughts on Gloria Steinem, Pornography, and the Problems with Today’s Feminism and Feminists
It is a simply stunning and warm sunny day, though the air is slightly cool. J and I go to dinner at 6PM at Cadiz before we watch the season 2 premiere of House of Cards. When Frank and Claire ran … Continue reading
Dull Blog about the Dullest Week I Can Remember: The Flu Sucks But I Saw Four Episodes of Gilmore Girls I Missed in 2009 and Learned How to Work a TiVo
J just ran home from the office to pick up Afrin. I asked him why he didn’t just buy a new Afrin at CVS and save the 15 minutes walking to car and driving home. He said he needed to … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged crazy internet people, flu, smog checks, whiffenpoofs, yale
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Procrastination Pre-Departure Blog: Gary Gutting on the Crisis in Humanities, Tina Brown on the Written Word (Oy Vey), and Arianna Huffington on (Not) Paying Huffington Post Bloggers (Like Me!)
It’s a pretty early winter day in Santa Barbara, which means it probably got down to 50 degrees last night. I am listening to Wicked on YouTube, looking forward to shows at the Triad (N’Kenge, currently on Broadway at Mary Wells … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged 54 Below. VIP membership at 54 Below, Ben Cameron Broadway Sessions, Broadway, Gary Gutting, graduate school, higher education, holiday shows, humanities in crisis, LA Times editorial Tina Brown, Motown, N'Kenge, new york city, NYT, the Triad, Tina Brown
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