Category: Relationships

January 28, 2016 /

Louise Brooks — photographed by Edward Steichen

January 7, 2016 /

Sometimes eternal rest doesn’t come easy, #itsinhiskissbyvickielester chapter 3: You Only Live Once, read to you by Pippa Rathborne

Grieving Jean Harlow at the funeral of Paul Bern, her husband, 1932. Things take a turn for the sad in chapter 3, You Only Live Once…
December 16, 2015 /

Reprise: When you think you’re going to live forever…

When I was in college, that’s exactly what I thought. Then I finished school and started working, and people around me kept reinforcing the idea of prolonged youth. Do you babysit? You look like such a conscientious teenager! I’m actually a really inattentive adult—got a liquor cabinet?… I’m in! And…

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December 15, 2015 /

Olivia de Havilland in Christmas red

December 5, 2015 /

Elizabeth Taylor washing up…

Didn’t we all have chores? Except mine weren’t professionally photographed… . .

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 26, 2015 /

Bogey and Bacall married at Malabar Farms in Ohio – Happy Thanksgiving

November 25, 2015 /

Reprise: Thanksgiving at our house…

  Hello dear readers, This in no way resembles what the house looks like in real time. By this point I have become the person who the child refers to as “Boss” and who the sainted man that married me is kind enough to endure. They are probably setting the…

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