Armed with our Mapquest map, Larry and I drove across Orange County to a small restaurant on top of a hill to attend a benefit dinner. We were late, way late, and I hate being late. I pride myself on being on time, so much so, that if I am on time, in my mind, […]

This is my husband, Larry Broughton, on Donny Deutsch’s “The Big Idea” back in the Spring of this year. When the producers from this show first called Larry to ask if he wanted to be on, he told them he had to check with his wife, since it fell right smack-dab in the middle of […]

I am completely over the whole Skull and Crossbones phenomenon; on my kid’s fruit snacks, on flags flying high above RV’s at Huntington State Beach, on dog T-shirts and (gasp!) on a silk scarf I found today at J.Crew (curses). From now on, unless you are a true pillaging pirate, or a bottle of poison […]

Marisa, from one of my favorite blogs, Creative Thursday, is now going to put us in the mood for fall……. She is enormously talented and very sweet. She, also, loves Annie. Such a small blogging world.

I have never heard anyone from Orange County ever refer to it as “The OC.” I think it is much like when I lived in San Francisco and someone would call it “Frisco.” That person would be instantly marked as a poser and passed over at any social function. Aside from French Canadian tourists and […]

When it comes to getting “things done” I am arguable the least motivated person you have ever met. By “things done,” I mean “things” I don’t want to do. For instance, if I have to fold the whites (which I totally hate to do) I have to trick myself into doing it by saying, “just […]

Recently, a friend of mine (Hi Erik!) sent me a very snide, rude and basically insulting e-card from Someecards.com. Naturally, I loved it and proceeded to serially send them to all of my friends. Here are some of the cards I sent: To Ericka: To Jill: To Vicki: (She didn’t find it amusing) BTW- there […]

My friend Annie Galvin (Wexfordgirl) posted some very nice words about me today on her blog. She also offered up some old pictures from our “Savoy Tivoli” days in San Francisco. I met Annie while we both toiled away at the infamous (in our own minds at least) Savoy Tivoli in North Beach in the […]

I feel the same way about wine as I do about a really beautiful dress; I don’t care how its made or who makes it…and I am willing to spend a little more if I really love it. I don’t want to use colorful language to discuss it with my dinner-mates, I just want to […]

This would be such a great Christmas gift for just the right person. Claudine Hellmuth is an artist who creates personalized, original artwork exclusively for you using photos of some lucky person in your life. I love these. The processing time is about 2 months so you have to get on the stick if you […]