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Happy Saturday from Plane to LGA: Lovely Travel Day and Gratitude for My Life and Freedom
[Ed. note: I’m posting this from the apartment where the rain is pelting the lush, green leaves which have popped up in the last two months. It was simply breathtaking when I arrived but now pretty wet out there so … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Food & Wine, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Ann Taylor, chicago, christina noel, consignment, elizabeth wurtzel, family, Fig and Olive, happiness, Ice, kids, marriage, money, new york city, new york magazine, O'Hare, ORD, purses, SB Handbag and Luggage, upper east side
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First Blog of 2013: Victorian Chick’s Reflections on Happiness, Social Media and Elizabeth Wurtzel
“Happy is good. I’ve always been a fan of happiness.” –Marsha Mason to James Caan in Neil Simon’s Chapter Two. It’s been two weeks since my pre-NYE blog as I have intermittently been working on my monster blog for … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Literature, Relationships, St. Augustine, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged chapter two, choices, Cliff Baldridge, daphne merkin, elizabeth wurtzel, facebook, feminism, friendship, gwyneth paltrow, happiness, harper's bazaar, hope Steadman, James Caan, Jewish, jezebel, Joe Bologna, katie baker, lynn beisner, marriage, Marsha Mason, mel harris, memoirs, money, New Years Eve, new york city, new york magazine, polly draper, private school, psychoanalysis, Role Reboot, secular jews, st. augustine, therapy, thirtysomething, yale
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Happy Monday Night from the Daily Grill Santa Monica Happy Hour: Default Plan after Horrific Traffic from the Palisades to Studio City (Hence No Dance Class)
“Ah, L.A.!” wrote my friend from Barrington, RI, where I spent a night in July en route to the Cape. For 25 years or so, D.C. was their primary residence and they were such generous hosts to me in … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Relationships, St. Augustine, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged brentwood, children, daily grill, Duckhorn Sauvignon, fathers/daughters, fathers/sons, hama jazz dance centre, hollywood, La Terre, Little League, luigi jazz, marriage, Oedipal matters, pacific palisades, risa, soccer, traffic in LA
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Happy Friday from Hot Santa Barbara! Fun 2nd Anniversary Weekend With J (Solo Second Viewing Tonight of To Rome, With Love and Preliminary Note on Evan Handler’s “Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors”)
Ed. note: After writing this last night, J and I watched the last two episodes of Californication, Season 2. They were the best two episodes of the second season and I will write about them later. Charley Runkel really does … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Relationships, Television, Uncategorized
Tagged californication, cocaine addiction, dan tanas, David Duchovny, evan handler, it's only temporary, Julliard, la, marriage, natasha mcelhone, neil simon, nyc, Paradigm, SBAC, time on fire: my comedy of terrors, troubadour, west hollywood
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Nora Ephron (1941-2012) Made The World (and Movie Theaters) A Funnier, Smarter, Better Place
How to pay tribute to a cinematic trailblazer, or as the Washington Post put it in their long and loving obituary, a rare female “tripartite”– writer, producer, director–responsible for some of the sharpest, funniest, most beloved films of my lifetime? … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Film, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged carl bernstein, carly simon, charlie rose, cheating, children, dan ackroyd, dan savage, female filmmakers, gaby hoffman, goodfellas, heartburn, I Feel Badly About My Neck: And Other Reflections on Being a Woman, I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections, infidelity, jack nicholson, joanna gleason, julie kavner, marriage, meryl streep, mike nichols, monogamy, nicolas pileggi, nora ephron, parenting, psychology, richard masur, samantha mathis, silkwood, stockard channing, this is my life, washington post, watergate, when harry met sally, wiseguys, women in film
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Victorian Chick at the “Love Event” (Sheraton Gateway): Larry Loik, Life Coaches and Motivational Speaking
“How many tapes, books, CDs, DVDs have you bought to change your life, only to find that nothing changed?” –Larry Loik, Biggest Tony Robbins franchisee, entrepreneur, motivational speaker “Uh, none.” –Victorian Chick (aka anti-woo woo therapy snob) … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged californication, counseling, dating, happiness, internet dating, larry loik, life coaching, maria simone, marriage, mental health profession, motivational speaking, psychoanalysis, psychology, sex, sheraton gateway, the love event, therapy
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Blogging on Beautiful Day in the OC with 4 Dogs/Brief Comment on Nannies, Working/Stay-at-Home Moms in Light of Ann Romney Brouhaha
It’s a breathtaking day with a warm sun and pleasant breeze under the canopy at my friend’s backyard with her German Shepherd, not even 2 and 105 pounds, along with her three Italian greyhounds. My friend says … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Relationships, St. Augustine, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged ann romney, cafe del rey, californication, careers, dennis prayer, dogs, education, german shepherd, hank moody, marina del rey, marriage, national review, Nicole Miller, orange county, romneys, social conservatives, stay-at-home mothers, tahari, the cottage in palisades, working mothers
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A Wonderful Weekend in LA! Louise’s Saturday with Parents, Descendants at Landmark, Golden Globes Online, Hama’s Dance Center, Erbe Matte in Beverly Hills!
I was having so much fun this weekend and removed from my USB cable until 8 30 PM that I didn’t blog. I don’t have time to do a full blog about the wonderful Clooney film which I saw four … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Film, Food & Wine, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged Descendants, fidelity, Golden Globes, hama, happiness, jazz dance, Landmark Cinema, Louise's, marriage, monogamy, parenting, sex, Westside Pavilion
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“There Are No Happy Endings”: Tommy Gavin in Season 7, Episode 3 of Rescue Me
Ordinarily before I write a real essay or piece of criticism, I want to have my text mastered, be it a poem, novel, film, or television show. But as my ex-chair once wrote on a chapter of mine, criticism is … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Family, Relationships, St. Augustine, Television, Uncategorized
Tagged 9/11, alex patsavas, andrea roth, andy cipowicz, comedy, denis leary, fidelity, franco, friendship, grey's anatomy, happiness, heartburn, janet, lou, male friendship, marriage, monogamy, nypd blue, pain, peter tolan, rescue me, sex, sheila, strong female characters, tragedy
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Well-Done Film about Marriage, Friendship, Infidelity: Just Between Friends (1986, Danson, Lahti, Waterston, Moore)
I am at my boyfriend’s parents gorgeous home during a pit-stop between swim lesson and guitar lesson and wanted to post something but knee deep in theory and also negotiations about candy, so I thought this would be an appropriate … Continue reading