Ernest Hemingway wrote in Cuba … I think it was a prize-winning novel… but I’ll have to do my research now that my friend CHUCK LARSEN brought me back a picture he took of Hemingway’s Corona. I was speechless when Chuck presented me this photo the other evening. I recognize how immensely thoughtful he is to…
I worked with Sherry Stern about twenty years ago, and we’d lost touch until she found us at a car museum event down in Orange County. “I’ve inherited my late brother’s Silver Cloud Rolls Royce!” she shared. She’s been lovingly restoring it, but it’s a huge project — literally. Because it’s a mere 19 feet…
We get our furniture and drapes cleaned and “fiber-sealed” once a year… I wrote a note to Brent, our service advisor, to thank him — we’ve worked together for ten years… and he’s about to go to a new job. He sent me the last invoice — and told me, ‘Be sure to look at…
I’m about a sixteenth Irish — on my mother’s side. My friend Kate Brinegar, however is 100%. Each St. Patrick’s Day now for at least ten years, I try to send her something in the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day. I’ve found green elf socks from Target. Deely-boppers with hideous tinselly fringe dripping off them….
My shoulder’s been hurting for a few weeks and I finally got myself to the chiropractor. I parked on the street, middle of the day, paid at a complicated new meter and went inside. An hour or so later, I came back down to see a white piece of paper folded into the side window…
Polo/Ralph Lauren knows how to reach its customers. Last week I got a candle from Saks, telling me about a Polo/Ralph Lauren trunk show. This week Vic Miller from the main store — on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills — sent flowers. In both cases, it made me think, “Gosh, I haven’t bought any Polo…
I once heard Joy Behar say on “THE VIEW” that she leaves a tip each day in the room for the hotel Housekeeper… because they change, and you can’t assume that if each person will get a part of whatever you leave at the end of a trip. I began to bring my own notepaper…
CLICK THIS TO SEE MY BROTHER-IN-LAW’S TRIO OF PICTURES: Gary McKee email We joke that my brother-in-law Gary McKee would have been a great paparazzi. He gets the photo nobody else thinks of — when everyone else is shooting front-on, he goes for the back-of-the-head or ‘lurker in the bushes’. At…
At Portofino Sun Center today getting ready for a trip to Hawaii (!) — I chatted amiably with my new aesthetician, Ali Pinkering. She’s good friends with a flight attendant for Jet Blue, who (like me) is down with the flu. Ali and I talked about how her friend underwent months of training, but…
As someone who prides herself on being highly rational — maybe the result of having two atheists as parents? — I find myself succumbing sometimes to the lures of the spiritual and unexplained. Michael and Nina made me a special necklace — black onyx and crystal. When I put it on, I did feel ……
