Sunday, November 23, 2008
Brrrrr
I've got my laptop on my lap, feet propped up on my cocktail table, and I'm staring out a sliding glass door onto my deck. The sky is a hazy pale blue. I can see it through trunks of winter trees, bare limbs save for some brown leaves clinging for dear life on a few branches. Our Weber grill hulks...
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Monday, November 17, 2008
Belly Busters
You know that feeling, when you've just downed a lot of water, and, as you're walking, the liquid starts sloshing around in your stomach? It's a weird sensation, actually. This morning, I was heading downstairs and felt a similar stomach wave action, when I realized that I hadn't had anything to...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
ELEVEN DAYS OF BLOGGIT SILENCE
I signed on to Bloggit to find that it's been 11 days since I last wrote here. What the hell have I been doing?? Besides the usual writing assignments, rewriting already written articles, and pitching others, I have finally succumbed to the dreaded, evil website that is the bane of many parents of...
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
My Civic Duty
My favorite color has always been purple, which probably explains why, up until the very last minute, I debated with myself about who to vote for. Blue? Red? Blue, red? Oh f** it, I'll just swirl them together to create, yes, purple. Of course, I couldn't really fill in both bubbles on the...
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
Politics Aside
While friends and members of my family took off precious time to stump for Obama this weekend in Pennsylvania, I was visiting here for another, rather embarassing reason; to check out a newly built indoor water park. As a travel writer, I never know where I'll be off to next, but suffice it to say,...
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Singing with Pete Seeger
One of the highlights of my magazine writing life was sitting with Pete Seeger around his dining room table and joining him in a few stanzas of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone." Five years ago - at 83 - his voice was quivery, but nonetheless much better than mine. He didn't seem to care. I was on...
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Friday, October 24, 2008
Evita Palin, um, ooops, Paron
Evita (with the original Broadway cast) is one of my alltime favorite musicals. When Palin's "wardrobe" costs were made public (more than 100 times what I spend in a YEAR), I couldn't help but belt out the song, "Rainbow High." watch Madona's version on this link;...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Greenwich Tales
I was sitting in the Greenwich Hospital waiting room this morning, waiting for my husband to get out of shoulder surgery, and ended up talking to Cody and Cassidy Gifford's Grandma. Well, not REALLY their grandma, but close enough. This being Greenwich and all, one always expects to bump up against...
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Cigarette Smokin'
I am standing on the bow of my father’s Columbia 43, listening to the metallic sound of the halyards as they slap against the mast. I am awash in serenity – taking in the sight of the setting sun, feeling the mild breeze whisper at my face. My father is at the helm, steering us out of the harbor. I...
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
It's A Girl Thing; I wrote for Paddler Magazine, Fall 2003
My face is in DK’s crotch. My legs, still in the water, are splayed like a comatose frog. At this moment, I’m thinking, “inflatable kayaking is a lot like childbirth. There’s no room for modesty.” I manage to haul my backside into DK’s Ducky, while grabbing my “dry bag” to prevent it from agitating...
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