Love Notes

This week, I'm thinking about water.  Today, we are heading to Florida, where I'll be doing a trunk show at the Gasparilla Inn.   I'm looking forward to some down time too, walking the beach and watching the waves.   There's no sense in me searching for a good metaphor for that restorative feeling of being by the sea, because I know that you already know precisely what it is that I'm trying to say.

There's just so much good stuff to learn from the sea.  You can skip reading right now, and go pick up Anne Morrow Lindbergh's "A Gift from the Sea".  You'll be glad you did.   But I've got a Love Note left here to create, so I guess I'll pick up my proverbial pencil and let my thoughts flow ...  how about this (I have been giving it some thought all week) ...  the ebb and flood of tides are a mirror of life.  Rushing and receding.  No phase lasting forever.   READ MORE

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There are some of us who have a predilection for seashells over red velvet.   If this sounds like someone on your nice list, then this love note is for you.   We've just returned home from a week in Boca Grande, Florida.  Not a traditional "over the river and through the woods" Thanksgiving destination, but I've learned that with unmarried kids in their twenties, it's the perfect week to travel together.   READ MORE

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I got to thinking about bunnies, and the one rabbit who kept inserting himself into the forefront of my mind was the dapper martini drinking gentleman bunny in the mural by Ludwig Bemelman at Bemelman's Bar.   Here's the backstory:  in the 1940s, Robert Huyot, the French born manager of New York's Carlyle Hotel, was friendly with Bemelman family.   He asked the artist (best known for his series of Madeline books) to create a mural in the hotel's bar, depicting Central Park throughout the four seasons.  READ MORE

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Just a quick hello from one of my favorite places on the planet!      If you're in my neck of the woods this week, stop by my trunk show and say hello - at the Gasparilla Inn this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  Above is my friend Sarah Tucker at the Inn's beach club  - and yes, she is just as exceedingly kind as she is stunning.  Read more here

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