Like Judy Garland in Wizard of Oz I followed not the yellow brick road but the internet trail unhesitatingly and ...
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My friend David Patrick Columbia generally starts off his daily report on his super popular New York Social Diary with ...
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Chinese New Year is still with us and has grown in popularity throughout the USA so remarkably the past few ...
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I found this 1920's lamp in a funny little antique store in Edinburgh, Scotland in early 1980's. Without thinking I ...
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As the news of the Costa Concordia tragedy in Giglio, Italy keeps coming in it overshadows all those longings for ...
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Today I'm going to tell you about something that I really meant to tell you about in late autumn but ...
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A young friend who only knows the modern young Parisians emailed me about my New Year blog on Paris in ...
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Well it's just about upon us and I imagine most of you have big party plans. I have to confess ...
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L'Eglise Saint-Roch was filled with floral tributes from all the important names connected with Paris haute couture. The priest, Rev ...
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It seems to me there is nothing more to write about Christmas but everyone is trying. Well I can't just ...
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It was bigger news in Paris and London than in Santa Barbara, California but I read with interest the obits ...
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Have you ever had that experience of walking into the kitchen one sunny morning and it's suddenly very obvious that ...
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A friend asked me, "Did you ever know Svetlana Stalin Peters who just died?" And my answer was "No, but ...
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I have to thank a favorite blog Fashionista.com for the following story, just too cute not to pass along. After ...
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Since I try to keep this blog positive and up and hopefully interesting I'll start with the good first. I ...
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People who love beautiful costumes, appreciate textile creativity and superb workmanship, should head straight to this special exhibition (Theater in ...
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All the most colorful people showed up in Santa Barbara in the 1970's and 1980's. Here is an article in ...
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The Concours d'Elegance came to Santa Barbara and I couldn't resist attending. It was a lovely autumn day. As always a wonderful ...
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I write a lot about yesterdays. And maybe I imply yesterday was better. It probably was if only because I ...
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There was an aura of an Agatha Christie mystery brewing when one boarded the newly restored glamorous Venice Simplon-Orient Express ...
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