On Being Wild Flowers.

13Oct13

After spending the last glorious weekend of Summer upstate at the Ashram, back in NYC, I was up all night online and in my dog-eared Peterson Field Guide trying to ID a wildflower I saw.  Positive I was the only sleepless, Manhattan-ite soul awash in botanicals of this sort at that moment. Finally, identifying what […]

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Kickin’ Delicious.Spring City + Country Trippin’ NYC, USA.

21Apr12

spring is kickin’ up! In the country, fresh shoots of green sprouts packed with new beginnings and nutrients are like a delicious drug or tonic to animals, making lambs frolic and life bucolic. In the city, the busy schedules are balanced by more non-linear kicking and romping, experiencing the city in sweet warmer weather, more […]

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Rainbow Chillin and Rare Birds

31Jan12

top image Fiona Fraser, bottom image Adventure Time, Beautopia January. Jaded and cold New York City slicker, tonight, I am slanketed, snuggilicious like a Suburbanite, way down, down, down under my down coverlets in the depths of my past. Crystal ball says: I see my first boyfriend at age 14, a sweet, golden, hippie mop-haired […]

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Cafe, cigarettes, les belles et les bad boys: Fashion Week NYC 2011

12Oct10

This is the City, and this is the music. Out of the little black boxes an unending river of romance in which the crocodiles weep. Henry Miller, Black Spring With the State of TV New Jersey opening up it’s trench coat and exposing itself as the real-life Fellini movie it always was, I thought more […]

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Bon Vivants: Positions Available This Very Moment

24Sep09

“Bon Vivants: 11 Stories and Habits of Highly Effective BVs.” Written by a well-published and widely read Bon Vivant author. Me. #1  “Join the bon-vivant!  You can too! It’s never about pedigree, and always about wit, drama, intrigue, good and stylish outfits and bohemian silliness…” (and taking the summer off from blogging!) We admit it. […]

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MAKE LOVE WAR, little by little

02Mar09

To feel and know the mantle of GOLD, with it’s winking ability to transform is the mark of the magician. The warrior and the maiden must acquire this for bravery and attraction. To transform War with Love is the fire that moves us and One Man tickles us to REALLY DO IT. We are honored […]

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