Thursday, August 25, 2011

"Adorned with cape, with tricorn, saintly soul singing in librarian tones an enameled song that coolly celebrates her chewing-gum enthusiasms" - Truman Capote

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Mid-August...seems about the right time to redouble my bitching regarding the heat, humidity, and general sticky-icky-ness that is becoming ...
Monday, August 22, 2011

"And one day God might come on back...With a summer tan and a Cadillac" - Christine Anderson

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At the beginning of every summer...in that epicenter of the storm...my "mind's eye"...I imagine a season of outfits in which I...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns" - Marshall McLuhan

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Two words that you don’t want to find staring up at you from your inbox (especially when, pressed for time , you’re just trying to find anyt...
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Monday, August 08, 2011

"A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone" - Francis Picabia

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Like me, you may have had a yen to jump on the sonic skincare bandwagon and buy Olay's very wallet-friendly cleansing system ...wanting,...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." - Sam Keen

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Summer, or so they say, is a time for laziness...I find this especially true when faced with the prospect of working on a day when the tempe...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity" - unknown

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Number two in the series...things to do with fruit when you can't face another piece in regular fruit form...and have no intention of dy...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

"If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?" - Erma Bombeck

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When life hands you lemons (according to those pesky do-gooders), you make lemonade.  When life hands you temperatures over 100 degrees...an...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right" - Moliere

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Well, as long as we've got that sorted out...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

"The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows..." - William Cullen Bryant

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You know that you're a city girl...with a country background...when the sight of bunches of lavender for sale in your local grocery stor...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

"“Burn the pen, and burn the ink; burn the paper as well. Burn the writer who writes in the love of duality." - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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If...big if...stupendous if...the sort of if that is usually followed by "I was rich/royal/insert something that's never going to h...
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

"The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, ever" - unknown

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I realize that there's a certain amount of despair-inducing angst involved with determining which black bag is your black bag on the ai...
Friday, July 15, 2011

"Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd." - William Shakespeare

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After a few weeks of, admittedly rather unscientific study, I think I can claim that the only reason to cough up the sum required to buy US...
Saturday, July 09, 2011

"Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out." - Jack Handy

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Life being a tad hectic at the moment, shopping...as a purposeful activity as opposed to a pleasurable pursuit...is limited to rapid-fire on...
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Monday, July 04, 2011

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." - Benjamin Franklin

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I realize that a good portion of the American-based population are at the beach today...laying in the sand...nibbling on mildly inedible (an...
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Sunday, July 03, 2011

"Solitude is independence." - Hermann Hesse

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Not quite Independence Day...and a not very patriotic outfit (limited stripes and no stars)...but a comfortable option for a (currently rath...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

"I have discovered that most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them..." - William Carlos Williams

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A quick missive about a couple of new travel beauty bag essentials that are (I hope) ensuring that I look a little less bedraggled...tired.....
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

"A few clowns short of a circus..." - unknown

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The next best thing to skull art...at least to my mind...is marginally disturbing clown art. At first, the mind is uncontrollably drawn tow...
Monday, June 20, 2011

"Let them eat cake..." - Marie Antoinette

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I never thought I'd side with Mrs. Louis XVI on this one but...who needs birthday cake...when homemade birthday fudgsicles are resting i...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it." - Vladimir Nabokov

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Flight number one - finds yours truly seated next to a gentleman chewing clove gum...I think...whatever it was, it emanated from his mouth ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite" - George Washington

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Even though I can wear (essentially) whatever I want for work I find the idea of a "uniform"...pieces that will easily slot togeth...