AUGUST hit the new restaurant of the same name in my ‘hood on bleecker street last night. food was fabulous, owner, laurence was the epitome of a gracious host, wine was perfect. reccomendations: sea bass and tarte tatin. mmmm. and its going to be a solarium in the back in the summer! can’t wait. the […]

CHAUSSEURES gosh i feel so francais today. tres bizarre. so i havent written a thing about shoes this week so i must make an observation. ladies: while it is warm out, unseasonably so, this does not mean that we wear flip flops and sandals (unless they are designer stiletto sandals and that is a different […]

PROCRASTINATION ROCKS yep. let’s see. orderign shelves from pottery barn. eating out at my favorite indian restaurant and the ever-present cleaning. oh yeah. love to clean when that cursor is blinking on my laptop. at least i am not making pear tarts. just yet.

PARADOU not to be confused with paradise, or even le paradou the sweet little town in provence, mais non, my pretties. paradou is that cute little find in meatpacking bereft of meatpacking attitude and full of the nicest people ever. syl and i knocked back a glass or two of a fabulous organic french wine […]

COUSIN GENEVIEVE WRITES IN “My fave shoes are a pair of silver strappy heels. I bought them in high school and wore them to five proms. I danced and kissed many a men in those shoes. I also kissed the man that I will kiss for the rest of life in those shoes as they […]

I AM A NIELSEN FAMILY except i dont have a tv. but that is a minor issue, one to soon be resolved. but isn’t that exciting? i can skew the nation’s viewing habits. i can influence programming. i can have nielsen parties with all the free money they give me. we’ll have foie gras and […]

POETS AND ALL SORTS OF NONSENSE need we even say poets and nonsense in the same phrase. i mean, poets, freaks of the world that we are, are always full of nonsense. and sense ironically. anyhoo, it was a great reading monday night, if i do say so myself. rayray, leanne brown and lytle shaw […]

DEAR READERS WRITE IN from cousin sarah: “Miss Meghan, I have to tell you about my very favorite pair of shoes. I was wearing them when I met my husband. I know it was the shoes that he loved!!! They are a very high black stiletto. They have a unique open toe. They look like […]