Category: Life

December 15, 2015 /

Rita Hayworth… So not anywhere near snow

December 15, 2015 /

Olivia de Havilland in Christmas red

December 9, 2015 /

“You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.” Jane Fonda

December 5, 2015 /

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, Elizabeth Taylor

The fifties, when a certain young miss turned into queen bee – and deservedly so…

December 5, 2015 /

Elizabeth Taylor and Me, by Lanier Smith

Over my lifetime I leaned many things from Elizabeth Taylor. I learned how to face life straight on and survive the hard times. I learned that it was a blessing to be different. I learned that kindness and honesty and being the real you brings unexpected rewards. I learned by…

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December 1, 2015 /

A Hard Day’s Night – an excerpt from It’s in His Kiss by Vickie Lester

November 30, 2015 /

Home…and dim sum Sunday

We all have filters. Mine are pretty basic. I see things through the lens of where I live, I base my interactions on the dynamics I observed in my family, I hope experience has tempered both. I suppose Sunday is as good a day as any for reflection, so I’ll…

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November 29, 2015 /

I admire anyone, even if they’re 5, if they can break into song before 8 in the morning…

November 29, 2015 /

Lucille Ball takes to the ice!

November 26, 2015 /

I am thankful for you…

For editors, for digital savants, for connoisseurs of scent, for kind hearts around the world,  for book clubs, and for this thing we call the Internet. The places we go, the people we meet, the perfectly wonderful communities we build…online. My editor sent me this: An excerpt from: Faulks on…

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