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Victorian Chick Is Now on Video! Whirlwhind First Week in NYC (and New Haven Overnight) [Four Videos]
With each passing day, writing a blog to do justice to the wonderment of New York at Christmas while galavanting, dancing, visiting, dining and just being in the city I am blessed to call home three months a year … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Literature, Theater, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged Bar Italia on Madison, Barcelona, Christmastime, Dear Elizabeth, elizabeth bishop, Hartford, luigi jazz dance, manhattan, new haven, New Haven Hotel, new york city, poetry, Robert Lowell, tapas bars, The Living Room, The Russian Lady, The Taft Apartments, Yale Repertory Theater, Yelp NYC reviews
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Very Short Procrastination Blog Pre-Dawn Flight to NYC Due to Downed Tree Blocking Condo/Quick Note on Phenomenal “Coney Island Christmas”
Donald Marguiles’ world premiere play about a little Brooklyn Jewish girl cast in the school Christmas play as Jesus Christ far exceeded my (high) expectations. The show runs through December 30th and whether I can convince my parents to come … Continue reading
Happy Pre-Thanksgiving Week Blog: Victorian Chick Enters the 21st Century with an iPhone 5!
I’m at Enterprise Fish Company on a sleepy, cloudy Sunday in SB, eagerly anticipating my chicken club (minus bacon) with avocado and aioli after having eaten nothing all day except superlative vanilla birthday cake at T’s 9th birthday party at … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Music, Travel, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged 1992 election, 1993 blizzards, afghan whigs, apple store, bedtime stories, cafe majestic, enterprise fish company, fillmore theater, greg dull, hotel majestic, iphone, los angeles, madonna, new haven, roxy, rue epic, san francisco, santa barbara rock gym, toad's, upper east side, yale
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Happy Fiesta Weekend from Santa Barbara! (Plus Preview of “To Rome, With Love” Rave and Reflections on Victorian Chick’s “Rarefied” Life)
I am back from New York (and the Cape/Barrington, Rhode Island), happily ensconced with J and the animals on a stunning, sunny Saturday after a morning of clouds and drizzle. I didn’t plan to return on Thursday, August … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Film, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged 1%, 360 State Street, amy waldman, big law, deconstruction, fiesta, graduate school, harvard westlake, husbands and wives, kathy reich, literary theory, manhattan, midnight in paris, new haven, o'melveny and myers, post-structuralism, taft apartments, to rome, upper east side, upper west side, west los angeles, westlake school for girls, with love, woody allen, yale, Yale Club of LA
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On the Metro North from New Haven to Grand Central: Yale, UCSB, the Taft vs. Death Gardens (Grad Apartment)
Wednesday morning, 7 AM, Upper East Side: I wrote this yesterday. It was a wonderful time up at the Cape for my first time, in Osterville. I had a great time with friend of parents’ and his absolutely wonderful friends … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Family, Fashion, Lifestyle, Literature, Relationships, St. Augustine, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged amtrak, archetype clothing company, cape cod, depression, english departments, happiness, hope gardens, metro north, new haven, osterville, providence, union league cafe, university of chicago, yale
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“Now I’m Alive, When I’m Dead I’ll Be Dead”: Hannah and Her Sisters, One of the All-Time Great Scenes/Leaving for LA
My friend Hans posted the song “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” on FB this morning. I adore this song but because I am younger than he, I associate it primarily with Woody Allen and Hannah and Her Sisters. I am quite … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Film, School, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged afterlife, athiesm, BU, cambridge, columbia, debate, english studies, god, hannah and her sisters, harvard, high school, immortality, new haven, new york city, penn, philadelphia, princeton, religion, secularism, westlake, woody allen, wwii, yale
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I Left New Haven, 15th Yale Reunion, a Year Ago Today: Freshman Year (1990) and Memorial Day Reflections (2010)
It has been a lovely five days in LA with my parents. I did not quite finish typing the books, as my brother brought his girls and we spent the day with my parents before having dinner at Noma, a … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Food & Wine, Uncategorized
Tagged friends, new haven, relationships, sex, yale reunion
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