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A Detour with a Happy Ending (Minus Wi-Fi): Santa Barbara to Denver to La Guardia Flight Reflections on Private School Culture, Single-Sex Education for Girls
Ed. note: I am just posting this before I head out. I will insert pictures but it is more like a memoir chapter combined with social commentary on the topics listed in the title. I am late but will post … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Lifestyle, Literature, Relationships, School, St. Augustine, Television, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged archer school for girls, diana meehan, Gramercy Park, harvard westlake, Hill Street Blues, hollywood, industry childhood. gary david goldberg, Jim Sikking, los angeles, new york city, private school, public school, San Fernando Valley, st. augustine, steven bochco, ucla, upper east side, WLA real estate
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Victorian Chick’s Anthropology of West Los Angeles Real Estate (Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Bel Air, Westwood, Malibu and Santa Monica–North of Montana)
I knew this iTunes thing was too good to be true. I have had the Macbook Pro about three months (used, a great deal on eBay) and it tells me there is a security breach and I cannot purchase … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged bel air, beverly hills, brentwood, college, elyse walker, entertainment industry, harvard westlake, high school, hollywood, holmby hills, lawyers, malibu, marina del rey, pacific palisades, reagan estate, real estate, shawn colvin, The Cottage, ucla, venice, wendy plumb, west hollywood, west los angeles, westlake school for girls, westwood, yale
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Friday Night Bedtime Blog: Preview of Yale Club Family Event at UCLA Planetarium after Physically Rough Week
I’m in bed and since I wrote 20 blogs in 30 days, averaging 3000 words, it seems very odd to go three or four days without so much as a peep on the blog itself, though I’ve been plenty busy … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged astronomy, ucla, W hotel Westwood, yale club of los angeles
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Thank You, Readers of Victorian Chick on Its First Anniversary! Preview of Royal Ballet’s “Romeo and Juliet,” Wall Street Journal’s Berkovitz on CA Colleges’ Indoctrination and a Fabulous Day in Hollywood Monday at Roosevelt Hotel
I knew today was the first anniversary of Victorian Chick because I looked back a couple weeks ago. A few blogs appear in archives prior to that but those were included (accurately) as earlier blogs on the short-lived Random … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, School, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged adam mansbach, anniversary, asshole song, bill kristol, bridesmaids, C magazine, denis leary, dennis prayer, east coast, facebook, fromin's deli, higher education, hollywood high, irving kristol, junto.blogspot.com, liberal indoctrination, literary criticism, los angeles, los angeles review of books, Los angeles times, national review, neil simon, new york city, no cure for cancer, paul fry, philadelphia junto, philip terzian, pulp fiction, r and d montana, romeo and juliet, roosevelt hotel, royal ballet, sex sells, social conservatism (repugnance of), the weekly standard, ucla, ucsb, wall street journal, west coast, WLA real estate, yale, yale school of criticism
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Happy Pre-NYC/DC Trip Friday! Photo Blog from San Francisco and Auburn 40th Birthday Trip with Trip-Inspired Grad School Reflections
Friday, 9:30 AM. I have been up on Facebook and chat since 5:30. I do not usually arise this early but this is the second day in a row up before 6:40, my internal clock’s preferred wake-up time. J and … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Philosophy, Relationships, School, Television, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged 40th birthday, application to grad school, auburn, birthday, book reviews, brian fischler, brutality of academia, californication, cross country skiing, depression, dissertation, garwood's, grad school, irvine, journalism, lake tahoe, laugh for sight, law school, literary theory, luigi dance center, monkey cat, new york city, orange county, person of interest, rutgers, san francisco, smash, snow, the weekly standard, toddlers, ucla, ucsb, washington dc, west los angeles, white collar, yale
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