This is not an abstract painting. It is a photo I attempted to take of some friends in a bar – it captures perfectly, how I was feeling at the time. I’m PRETTY SURE I texted someone right afterwards… Now that I am clear headed, I do not send text messages I regret anymore. […]
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This is the restaurant we barreled past and I kept saying, “What about that place with the tapas? And the ceviche?” Until I was so annoyingly convincing, Jon Jon took us there… Something weird happened to me this weekend. I went to St. Petersburg to see Jon Jon and Kallie, and it was the […]
My in-laws used to pour a nice, dry sherry at 5 o’clock. I remember the cut crystal schooners, the sectioned serving plate with a ‘plentiful sufficiency” of borderline stale, crisps, cocktail peanuts and Twiglets. My father-in-law and I would usually have a second sherry – extra dry to prepare our palates for dinner. I always felt […]
Colin Farrell used to come to Staniel Cay when I lived there. He was at the bar all the time (like 8 in the morning, all the time – even I was drinking coffee). It was during the filming of Miami Vice and he had a weird hairstyle, but he was still hot. I think he’s been […]
Great stories happen to those who tell them… Ira Glass I’m looking back to the time I was drunk and living in Staniel Cay in The Bahamas. Something possessed me to take our perpetually malfunctioning jet ski for a daytrip to Sandy Cay, alone. Sandy Cay is a picturesque sliver of coral and scrub, smack in […]
I remember as a child, one of the worst things you could call somebody was a “show off”. That was the kid who teetered perilously on a wheelie, no hands, shouting, “LOOK AT ME!” The show off was never cool, no matter how dangerous the stunt. Even as children, we sensed there was something sad and desperate […]
I say it all the time (by way of excuse), “I have an addictive personality.” I am the woman, after all, who transferred my yen for white wine to a daily gunnysack of dime-store candy. When I put a stop to that, I found a way to burgeon a Jones for frozen grapes. It’s 4 a.m. and […]
Last night Lauren and I went to the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens to see the Barbara Colacielo directed Deep Resonance – readings from August Wilson’s play Gem of the Ocean. The gorgeous, haunting Whitfield Lovell Deep River exhibit was the backdrop. Billy Holiday bled from a tinny old radio, actors and audience moved from […]
Will you think less of me if I tell you I think this looks delicious? Don’t Get the Wrong Impression I hope you don’t have the wrong impression of me. I talk about sugar so much, you might think I look like the rotund sidekick on every crime series. The one who types like a […]
I’m Late!!! I’m Late… I feel thrown this morning. Not in a bad way, in a good way – like the old, energetic, befuddled days without the hangover. I thought I got up at 6:20 this morning (I swear that is what my watch said) and I jumped out of bed in a rush, took a shower […]