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Ready For My Miracle, Mister De Mille
It has sometimes been said that a good makeup artist can "do miracles" of transformation in someone's looks. Many of us are much more aware of the possibilities of makeup now than we were before social...
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Soup To Nuts: A Body Positive Riff With Pix
This is the body that chicken soup built. This is the soup that built the body that chicken soup built.This the woman who took her own picture and cooked her own soup (the soup that built the body that...
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Gracie Enters Her Terrific Twos!(Grownup Cat In Brooklyn)
The kitten whose growth (in Brooklyn) was so carefully documented by me, is TWO whole years old today. She is still very much our baby, but I must admit that she really looks like a grownup lady cat...
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Dancing The Art of The Possible Dream This Year
My main dance teacher and Pro-Am competition partner, David, gave me a form to fill out, a couple of weeks ago. He wanted me to make a list of "New Years Resolutions" for my ballroom dancing. He said...
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Agony of De Feet: A Ballroom Dancer's Dilemma
I thought, when I started doing ballroom dance two years ago, that it would be challenging to dance in high heeled shoes. I was right. It is. But I also thought that nothing could be more dangerous or...
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"Carded" 38 Years Late and Other Surprises
Would you serve a hard cider to this woman? Lady Lucia and I had a wonderful Boxing Day. We attended the Christmas Show at Radio City Music Hall (yay, Rockettes!) and then went down to the Village, to...
View ArticleTip-Toeing Through Middle Middle-Age W/First World Problems
I'm writing this in the Citi Corp Center Atrium. One of the wonders of New York City. Sad that it's sponsored by a bank, but it goes to show that even the corporate Fat Cats will, at times, allow a few...
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Cyber Monday Reflections
No, I'm not shopping online today, but lots of other people are, so I might as well call it Cyber Monday, too. Actually most days are "Cyber" for me, now, in the sense that I do so much of my...
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"Whethering" Holiday Storms and End of Exile?
There's a Thanksgiving snowstorm en route, according to the Weather Wizards. Starting tomorrow (Wednesday) and lasting through Thanksgiving morning. At first, they said we wouldn't be getting any...
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Semi-Live Blogging: Sunday Morning on Planet Ballroom
Approximately 3 hours of sleep last night. 'Though our dancing was finished by 8:30, the competing went on until about 11:50 PM (and of course we wanted to watch the other dancers and cheer for our...
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Saturday afternoon: "Soft eyes;" false lashes; hard hair
A couple of hours ago, I did Tai Chi Chuan practice in our hotel room. I'd just had my dance makeup (including humongous false eyelashes) applied. I remembered my Tai Chi Sifu's instruction to practice...
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Friday 11/14/14: Landing On Planet Ballroom
The "one hour" drive mentioned in this afternoons's post took three hours. We stopped at a diner en route because we didn't want to have dinner too extremely late. Tilapia for me and crab cakes for...
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Planet Ballroom, the Prequel
In a couple of hours, my wife, Lynn (aka "Lady Lucia") and I will be leaving for the Fall Classic dance competition, in Mahwah, NJ (about an hour from this neighborhood - the wilds of Southern...
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On Lifetime Membership In the Groucho Club
Groucho Marx once said, " I would never want to belong to a club that would have me as a member." That was Groucho's way; back-handed self deprecation. It's one of the reasons I've been such a fan of...
View ArticleAwkward October
There are contractors renovating the recently-vacated apartment downstairs. Loud top-40 radio music. Hammering. Drilling. Shouting in Spanglish.Alice is on my lap, purring. That helps.It's that awkward...
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Don't Get Around (So) Much Anymore
Sometimes it takes hearing another person's perspective, to realize how weird one's own life is. This happened to me recently during a meeting with the Senior Minister (my direct supervisor and the...
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Mary Poppins En Pointe Meets the Vicar of Dibley: My Work
When I started my ballroom dance lesson last week, my teacher noted that the Viennese Waltz (my newest and most challenging dance) had improved. I told him, "I finally found a place to practice these...
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Saturday Evening Incognito In Brooklyn
I think they should really call it "incognita" when a woman is the one on the DL, but I get zapped by the spell-checker when I try to write it that way. It's an early, slightly cloudy evening on the...
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Nonna Mia, or, My Inner Grandma Emerges
Somehow, I hit the jackpot. Okay. I know how I hit the jackpot. I did it by marrying a woman who had a married adult son. Lady Lucia's son and DIL now have two boys. Senior Grandson is 2 3/4 years old...
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"Snakey Sisters": Missing My Kindergarten Drama Girls
"All You Need Is Love" - Grand Finale of our Valentine's Day Show They were impossibly adorable little princesses (most of whom dressed in ridiculous amounts of pink almost every day) but they were...
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