October is about baseball and breast cancer. The Texas Rangers are playing the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series. The National Breast Cancer Foundation is celebrating 25 years of awareness and education. I have to be honest; I haven’t paid much attention to either. Until last week. The Avon...
I was born and raised in Alaska and we Alaskans are enamored with our fish. Seriously. We talk about fish the way New Englanders talk about the Patriots - with a lot of passion, a lot of enthusiasm. On this crispy, October morning when New Englanders are thinking about football,...
Deluge. A drenching rain; downpour. And, just a bit depressing to wake up to this morning. I can see and hear the rain pummeling the windows and I feel like I’m in a car wash. I have a vision of those freakishly big rotating brushes that descend onto the car. ...
It’s easy for my sister Jenny to ignore me. She is 5 hours ahead of me in London, and has a 10 month-old boy and a 3 year-old boy (who calls me Auntie Mimi in a British accent – tugs at my heart). She has two scruffy sheepdogs that track...
A friend recently asked me if she could wear her white jeans to a party after Labor Day. Of course I said yes – as you know from my previous post, I have my own fashion rules. But really, it’s all about what you wear and how you wear it. ...