IT WAS ONLY A YEAR AND A HALF AGO when kristen was 8 1/2 months with baby jack that we sipped champagne at uncle john’s sorbet house in the hamptons for the baby shower. sigh. and now stephen gambrel’s house in sag harbor (the very one we shared a quick bite of fried chicken in […]

SHPILKES is what i had last saturday afternoon. it means in yiddish, ants in the pants. this was among the many yiddishisms sam and joshie taught me last night. two other ones also. one that meant chutzpah but more than chutzpah (which i can’t remember what it was) and then we discussed the merits of […]

POOP IS MY FRIEND i am only saying this because griffin has presented me with much poop in the last two days. i am sure it is a sign of his undying affection, and so poop will have to be my friend until this puppy develops a new way to show his love. i’d go […]

I HAVE AN ISBN bookmark that page my sweeties!!! oooh. how exciting.

SIPPING LATE AFTERNOON G&T’S at elizabeth charles while elena tried one fabulous dresses (and came away with two lovely pieces—one, a gunmetal grey silk jersey affair and one a champagne silk two-piece)i was taking in the shoe designs of aussie terry biviano. particulary fetching? her spring green satin thong ankle bootie (ooooh sounds so sexy […]

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN wanting to do something and having to do something. for example: wanting to ride subway one enjoys the schizophrenic man who is channeling mariah carey and sade and the dreadlocked rasta boy who curls up next to you and falls asleep. having to ride subway: one looks at the your fellow drones […]

WHILE CHEESE IS GOOD van’s no-wheat waffles are even better. i feel very holiday today. therefore, my post is tres short.

EEEK! EEEK! EEEK! my galleys arrive today!! eeek!!