Justin Goldstein. age 7, made me chocolate chip cookies for Mother’s Day. Here’s the card he drew… I try to get ahead of the holidays. I stock up on cards before they come, but this month I fell woefully behind. So when I walked into my office and found that Dina, our housekeeper, had beaten…
Champagne appointed by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II — a beautiful gold-engraved bottle sent to us by Brent Mulgrew, who worked with us for ten years on keeping our rugs & furniture clean. Brent said we were his first official customer. I remember when he came in the door for the estimate, clipboard in hand….
…really stack up! Thank you! **************************************************************************************************** The first thing I do when I come home from a trip is look through my mail. Magazines go to the side, they can wait. Bills take higher priority. And what do I open first? My personal mail. A pink card from my niece Kuu Sanford popped to the…
http://kimberlyking.com/ I never knew about “Stella” clothes until this year. Kimberly King introduced me to the line… she knew about it from her years in retail. (She’s worked with major designers; she knows all about fabric & design; she worked at Neiman Marcus in the heart of Beverly Hills for 23 years. And she’s got…
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…
From Ellen Levine, my friend who works at Harvard in the “Exponential Fundraising” course I took last year — came a “Trader Joe’s typewriter card”. I thought that was so sweet that I promptly wrote her back…and enclosed a replacement card for her collection. A lot of people rely on Trader Joe’s for their stationery…
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My home town — Palo Alto — was filled with oak trees back in 1910. My mother’s helped edit a history of Palo Alto, published by the Palo Alto Historical Association (PAHA). (See above). PALO ALTO REMEMBERED: STORIES FROM A CITY’S PAST. By Matt Bowling. (Available now — www.paloaltohistory.com/books.php) * She sent a ‘thank you’ for…
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….
We started our day buying long underwear. It was C-O-L-D in New York, and I was freezing! After a thorough investigation of UNIQLO (I highly recommend it!) Alison, who was Jamie’s college roommate at RISD (and like a second daughter to me) escorted me down Fifth Avenue to Henri Bendel. She works for a major shoe…
