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Tag Archives: Christmas
Merry Christmas Week to Victorian Chick Readers! A Story of Christmases and Christmas Trees Past by a Christmas Tree Jew
A Facebook friend and Rockette-turned-artist I finally met in Hoboken this October noted that people were too exhausted on December 26th to wade through a long, rigorous blog about academic politics, the death of journalism, and aesthetic theory: “Today is … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, St. Augustine, Travel, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged Christmas, Christmas Tree Jews, christmas trees, Columbus Circle, la, montecito, my sister's closet, new york city, Ornaments, secular jews, Stephen Nissenbaum
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Merry Christmas to Victorian Chick Readers! Quick Check-In from Santa Barbara after Perhaps Best Trip of my Life to New York
I’m just listening to Sierra Boggess with Ollie purring on the arm of “our” chair (just whose chair it is an open question of late) and Emma lying peacefully by the Christmas tree we decorated on Saturday when I returned … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Uncategorized
Tagged cabaret, Christine Quinn, Christmas, e-cig ban, Huffington Post, Mayor Bloomberg, Nutcracker, nyc
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Merry Christmas from Santa Barbara! Dad’s Birthday at Wilshire and Good Tidings about Brother-in-Law (Progressive/Metal Guitarist Gregg Olson)
Merry Christmas to Victorian Chick readers! I hope you all had a wonderful day with family and friends and a minimum of what can be the unpleasant mishigas of holiday gatherings (yes, I’m a Christmas tree Jew). J is sleeping … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Food & Wine, Literature, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged A Novel of Thank You, Balthazar, Bistro Chat Noir, Christmas, Gertrude Stein, Matthew Williamson, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Moorpark Ballet, Nutcracker, pam rossi dance school, Prada, upper east side, Wilshire Restaurant
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Very Short Procrastination Blog Pre-Dawn Flight to NYC Due to Downed Tree Blocking Condo/Quick Note on Phenomenal “Coney Island Christmas”
Donald Marguiles’ world premiere play about a little Brooklyn Jewish girl cast in the school Christmas play as Jesus Christ far exceeded my (high) expectations. The show runs through December 30th and whether I can convince my parents to come … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Theater, Uncategorized
Tagged Christmas, Coney Island Christmas, elizabeth bishop, entertainment, father, gotham comedy club, holidays, laugh for sight, law, new haven, new jersey, new york city, upper east side, Yale Rep
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Fun at the Garden Street Academy Holiday Boutique, Donald Marguiles’ Coney Island Christmas at the Geffen Tonight, and Reading Ambitions for 2013
Another rainy day in Santa Barbara but I don’t mind a bit. After a banner Saturday (minus swim) which began with the first professional cleaning of my apartment since February and a warm, wonderful afternoon at Garden Street Academy’s Holiday … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Philosophy, Relationships, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged afghan whigs, Augustine, autobiography, Christmas, Coney Island Christmas, David Holmes, Donald Marguiles, Donna Leon, edith wharton, Faiths of the Founding Fathers, Garden State Academy, Geffen Playhouse, greg dulli, Hanukah, Jewish Journal, john lithgow, Lisa Duncan Carrillo, memoir, morgan library, porter abbott, reading, rescue me, selfhood, subjectivity, Teresa of Avila, Teri Garr, the weekly standard, theory, theory of autobiography, Virginia Wolf
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Merry Christmas Eve to Victorian Chick Readers and Facebook Friends: Twilight on Montecito Beach
J and I are sitting by the tree I made him get and paid for myself but which he now loves, listening to the Christopher West instrumental album–“Christmas Spirit”– by the fire with our lab Emma. Here is a picture … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Relationships, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged animals, Christmas, christmas eve, computer mishaps, depression, emma, happiness, montecito beach, netbook, ollie, santa barbara, sunsets, the weekly standard, tre lune, ucsb, yale, yale ucsb santa barbara happiness depression rescue me greg dulli montecito
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Goodbye to NYC After a Fantasy Christmas Trip: Preview of Blogs to Come
I can’t believe I didn’t blog for all this time. I felt the need to do justice to each experience and as a result procrastinated, a rare thing for me. I procrastinate at a world-class level when it comes to … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Music, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Christmas, christmas carols, drama: an actors education, edith wharton, hildegard hoeller, john lithgow, kathleen rooney, live nude girl, luigi jazz dance, morgan library, sushi samba, the duplex, the weekly standard
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Sunday Night Blog after Great Tree Decoration in Jersey with Precious Truck-Loving 5-yr-old Son of Friend, Gotham Bar and Grill on Friday and a Busy Week Ahead
I love it here. There is simply no way to express it. I am at home, energized, electrified. I was supposed to come back from my friend’s house in Jersey to swim and then say a quick hello to a … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Travel, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged america as christian nation, Christmas, east coast, gotham bar and grill, holiday celebrations, luigi jazz dance, new years, new york city, north atlantic corridor, political correctness, secular jews, suburbs, tao, thanksgiving, upper east side, urban life
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Musings on Christmas Trees Amidst Pre-Christmas Preparations for Trip to NYC and Dogsitting a Sweet but High Maintenance French Briard
Happily, I persuaded my Jewish boyfriend to agree to a tree in his beautiful condo with ocean views. He did have a tree for five years or so when married to a Catholic, and while he’s not in the least … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Literature, School, St. Augustine, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged bob schiller, Bugsy, childhood, Christmas, christmas trees, Dylan McDermott, Emmys, Hanukah, I Love Lucy, Nicole Miller, Observant, Out of Africa, pacific palisades, Ronald Reagan, second-hand clothing, Secular, Shiva Rose, The Cottage, vintage clothing, westlake school for girls
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