My father spent this weekend in Ponte Vedra at the Boat U.S. Board Members meeting. Not interesting. What is interesting is that he spent this morning breakfasting with the Reverend Desmond Tutu. The same man who was the first black Archbishop of South Africa, the same man who was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against apartheid, ( Read more... )

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The Cosby Show was so great. Somehow, it's always on some channel somewhere, which is awesome. I loved it when the family would put together a little show to some blues song or another for Anna and Russel's anniversary. When Rudy had her little solo lip-synching "BAY-BAYYYY!!!!" so great. As a child from the fancier parts of Connecticut I didn't ( Read more... )

My mother and I put out the Halloween decorations today. It's mostly stuff she buys for 80% off from the grocery cart in the front of PUBLIX full of the stuff that didn't sell before Halloween. She snaps it up and we put it up next year. She is fiscally savvy. We have our own way of decorating, well, I suppose everyone does, but ours is ( Read more... )

I've been trying to win a designer handbag from bluefly.com for a few weeks now. Their WIN 30 BAGS IN 30 DAYS contest. Generally, I like pretty, girly things. Not anything that anyone really needs, just a thing- to have. Truly, I recognize the absolute riduculousness of paying 1595 for a little yellow leather bag with a giant PRADA embossed across ( Read more... )

When sending a resume to an editor ( Read more... )

I am sending off my destination story ideas today. I only came up with 5 destinations, which sounds puny, but I have excuses ( Read more... )

I made an appointment to gat an hour massage tomorrow morning at 10am. This is only slightly irksome since that is an hour before my normal wakee-upee time. Maybe I'll get up fo' real early and do some stuff. I ended up getting the work from Southern Boating so I am trying to come up with some good destinations for articles. The destinations need ( Read more... )

I went to Philadelphia for my great-uncle's funeral this week. As funerals go (and this was my first bona-fide funeral complete with casket) it was pretty great. Don't think me hard, because I cried, but he was an old man, 92, with a the fullest life a man could possibly have. Uncle Eddie was tired and missed his wife ( Read more... )

Hm. Oh, yes, I have news. I am in touch with Southern Boating Mag and they are interested in giving me some destination pieces (yes, Mariah ON THE MOVE!) and possibly a regular column, which would be great, because then I wouldn't have to get another job to support my play-girl lifestyle. Speaking of my rockin' life: I have a new skill, I am ( Read more... )