Il pleut encore aujourd’hui
Dreaming of Spring – Paris by deja pseu featuring Burberry Prorsum coats It’s that time of year, when those of us in colder climes start…
Author: Susan Blakey
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Degustation des champagnes!
Due to the current phalanx of rainstorms marching through our neck of the woods, our internet connection at home is dodgy. So please forgive if…
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Une femme recommends…
I’ve tried pricier lip balms, but for keeping lips soft and preventing chapping, I’ve not found anything better than Rosebud Salve. You can also use…
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Sunday Music Corner
During the summer of 1975, I wandered into Tower Music and heard this tune playing “full blast,” as we used to say, over the store’s…
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Aid for Haiti
Unless you’ve been outside the reach of the news lately, you’ve seen the pictures and heard the stories, and are probably well aware of the…
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Body Heritage
Great Grandmother Porter (my mother’s father’s mother). I used to joke that I came from Hardy European Peasant™ stock, (Irish-German-Polish on my mother’s side, and…
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Re-entry
We flew back home yesterday, a short but periodically bumpy trip over mountains and through patches of unsettled weather. Fortunately for le monsieur, who does…
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Blame it on (the) Manhattan
Our first night in Las Vegas, we stopped into the Sinatra bar for a cocktail. I decided to try their special Manhattan, which includes among…
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The Odd and the Beautiful
From the sublime… Vegas is sort of like the Bizzarro Disneyland. This is where subtlety comes to die. Still, there’s some absolutely grand, overripe beauty…
