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I have a personal rapport with the color red.  My first car was a Red Toyota Corolla; $3000 new including air conditioning and snow tires.  I was 21 and I wanted to make a statement.  I polished my nails in “Revlon Red” lacquer, painted my lips in “Dior Red” lipstick, owned a red Bill Blass coat and donned a pair of red suede Charles Jourdan stilettos , which I … Read More


What makes a horse such an intoxicating animal is the combination of extreme sensitivity, majestic beauty and soft love.  This 1000 pound animal can feel the touch of a tiny insect, hear the sound of an acorn on a barn roof, smell an animal cloaked by trees and see the flicker of a tiny movement in the distance.  To ride a horse with grace, you must partner with his breath … Read More


This Week’s Intimate DiscoveryPret-A-Porter Glamour is Re-Launched in the Intimate Market

It was really a thrill last week to be invited to see the recently re-vitalized Pleasure State™ Lingerie brand.  Maintaining its signature haute couture design influence, four distinctive collections address a variety of consumer needs; fit, value and glamour.  But it is the top of the line Couture Collection, an elegant gallery of intimate art, that embodies … Read More


Several years ago, on a family vacation in France, I took my history obsessed son on an excursion to Omaha Beach in Normandy.  His passion at the time was everything he could learn about World War II and the parent in me felt compelled to give him this opportunity.  Little did I realize the impact this memorial would have on my own familial vision.  Both my mother and my … Read More


Indulge ~ Fauve

They say that indulgence is the original sin.  I don’t agree.  When I was married, child of the 60’s that I was, I shunned the whole elaborate wedding thing.  I thought it “beneath” my bohemian lifestyle.  Of course, I was in my 20’s and I was absolutely positive that I was right.  I got married in City Hall.  I could not rationalize the point of all the material seduction that … Read More


This morning it was the tulips and the bay

Clear inside a crisp May day

Today, I feel clean, like spring

Lifted from the gray wash of yesterday

This balance between the air and water and flower

Is so fragile and holds such power

Within one hour the train will move me away

And the city tide will flow in and steal my day

Shortly after I bought the house … Read More


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