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hot sand, glass candy
Mr. Forte and I flew to Seattle to visit Son One for a weekend last month and spent a quiet, cloudy morning walking in Tacoma’s lovely Museum District. Watching glassblowers in the Hot Box at Dale Chihuly’s Museum of Glass wasn’t going to happen – all the museums are closed Mondays and Tuesdays except…
Gin: It’s What’s for Dinner
I usually write about things that make me happy, so you’re probably expecting this to be about my handsome husband or music or maybe lobster and Jarlsberg potato galettes. Instead I’m serving up sadness that will drop you to your knees and the smell of bile. Sound like fun? Good. Pull up a barstool and…
Just Like Bogie and Bacall
I don’t know why I decided to write this today, dammit, because I will cry if I do and my brownish-black Great Lash (not waterproof because that’s nasty stuff) mascara will dissolve until I look like Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart” when Jeff Bridges wipes a pool of sooty tears off her cheekbone with his…
A Wild Night at the Waldorf
Many years ago, I was a 28-year-old court reporter who had never been to New York. Heck, I’d hardly been anywhere. My client (and, um, squeeze), Mr. Handsome Lawyer, needed to take the depositions of some big shots in Manhattan the week after Thanksgiving. He wanted me to do the court reporting and make…