Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York. Married and divorced Prince Albert, second son of Queen Elizabeth. Mother to two beautiful daughters. Always tabloid fodder and now caught looking a little haggard and selling access to her ex-husband for 500,000 pounds (shows you what I know, I didn’t even know you could sell access to a…
Pablo Picasso, Three Musicians, 1921. The status quo is comfortable and people tend to gravitate toward what they understand and can logically get their head around. Change can be scary and pulls into question “What will happen now?” Change in politics or society can effect people’s lives in often dramatic ways. I understand the…
No one wants to be alone. Life is just better when you travel with others. These are phrases often heard during dinner parties, touted by self help gurus and generally understood within our culture. In response, we pair up or find a group we have things in common with or get on facebook and reconnect…
I’ve always found the phrase “May contain nuts or nut pieces” odd, especially when it is found on foods that have nothing to do with nuts. Don’t the makers of these products know whether there are nuts? What do you mean it “may contain”? After seeing this several times and pondering the possibilities I’ve determined…
I love when the arts have the courage to reflect a view felt by a society, not matter how ugly or controversial. Bravo to Rescue Me, a series on FX. I felt this way after 9/11 and it was the closest thing to blasphemy. During that time people were ripped apart for any feeling that…
I spend a lot of time in the car, so I often entertain myself by people watching on the freeway. For those of you that don’t have an hour commute, let me tell you it can be fascinating. Occasionally I’ll see a driver that for one reason or another will make me laugh out loud…
I’ve become a creature of habit. I fought it tooth and nail, but at a very young 38 years old I like a schedule and I’m out of sorts without one. I’ve never really been a “go with the flow” kind of girl, but when I was younger I took pride in never doing things…