tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53122221506772760822024-03-13T19:10:08.628-07:00Margo WarrenMargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-61161212549112839782018-10-11T15:16:00.000-07:002018-10-12T02:29:50.797-07:00My Father’s First Wife—From Pa’s to Jaws <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i style="font-size: medium;">My husband recently asked me what I was working on in Ancestry.com and I said "my father's first wife's fourth husband." Here's the second in the series R</i><i style="font-size: medium;">elatively Speaking, profiles of the characters I have discovered in piles from the past. Here I introduce you to Ann Gordon.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">My father’s first wife was
Ann Gordon from Bethel, Maine. I never heard good things about Ann. Just that
she went on to get married four or five more times. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">It was really only three more times. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">And that my father was "on the
rebound" after the divorce. And that this was hard for him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">So who is this Ann, this
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">For some reason my father had
and kept all their wedding photos. That ought to tell you something. A pack of
8 X 10 prints were still in an addressed manila envelope when I found them. I
am not sure I was meant to find them, but after my parents died I found a lot of secret
family records and photos. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They left me a pile of information and I’ve had a pile of
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">But by all appearances they
had a lovely wedding in Maine in June 1947. He was 31 and she was 21. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">What went wrong?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">She left the marriage with my
father after a few short years and married someone in the neighborhood. Cape
Elizabeth, Maine is a chichi suburb of Portland and there are well to do
without to do lists, and it would be easy for them all to be intertwined. Cape
Elizabeth is only about this big “.” And they all had to know each other,
right? In October 1951 Ann becomes Mrs. Norman Millet Thomas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">So this <a href="https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Norman-Millet-Thomas/73FF7FD4A18DB6F4">Norman
Millet Thomas</a> was interesting. He was an artist about whom it was written: “</span><span style="background: white; color: #323232; font-size: 11.0pt;">There are few US artists from the twentieth century whose
artistic diversity and breadth of life experience can rival that of Norman
Thomas. His accomplishments ranged from Pulitzer Scholarship, to combat artist
during World War II, publication in <i>Life </i>magazine, sculptor
for the US Coast Guard War Memorial, producer of a 1961 film banned by the
Mexican Government, and influential member of Studio 88 in California. His
friends and circle included Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and David Siqueiros.” </span><a href="http://www.askart.com/artist/Norman_Millet_Thomas/113929/Norman_Millet_Thomas.aspx" style="font-size: 11pt;" target="_blank">More on Norm.</a></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #323232; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-size: 11pt;">Sounds
cool right? Boom! He is out after three years and she is remarried in June of 1954. The next dude
was the treasurer of the University of Maine in Bangor. <a href="https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1109&context=univ_publications" target="_blank">Harry W. Gordon.</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-size: 11pt;">And she
is marrying someone with her maiden name. How convenient. Now she can be Anne
Gordon-Warren-Thomas-Gordon-Bowie. Or just Anne Gordon twice. So now she has
gone from being the wife of an artist to a wife in academia.</span></div>
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Next move--it is time to get
out of Maine I guess. Her fourth husband, with whom she stayed until she died in 1996, was <span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Williams Cadwalader Bowie. </span>Williams was blond
with hazel eyes and 5 11’ according to his draft card. But she seems to have
hit the jackpot with him, they had a house at <a href="https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/38-Cow-Bay-Rd_Edgartown_MA_02539_M43643-23220" target="_blank">38 Cow Bay Road Martha’sVineyard</a>, check it out. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">A property last sold for $10 million.</span></div>
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Bowie is immortalized as an extra in the movie<a href="http://www.timeaxismedia.com/jaws25/details.html," target="_blank"> Jaws, </a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">playing the role of an "Edgartown Hostess" in the dock scene. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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All right Ann, I guess you did okay for yourself. Certainly
by my standards with that oceanfront property and a membership at the
Edgartown Yacht Club and a house in Florida too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edgartown Hostess
is not a bad title to end up with. I don’t think my father would have gotten
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<i>Relatively speaking...I've been digging around in the past. Old photos, old documents, and paperwork, and Ancestry.com. I decided to write some profiles of the characters I have discovered. First let me introduce you to Ellen O' Sullivan Seifert, my maternal grandmother.</i></div>
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I have been stuck by the tragic life of Ellen O'Sullivan Seifert. Born
in Pontneuf, Ottawa on July 17, 1878 to Irish immigrants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
father, Owen O’Sullivan, was a wealthy farmer with a “dreadful drinking problem.”
Her mother, Jane McCarthy had 10 children, six girls and four boys and only the
girls survived. Ellen ends up falling in love with Gustavus Otto Seifert, and he is from a
pretty good family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His grandfather was
a German jeweler and owned Seifert Jewelers. But oh dear, when they go to get
married there are problems because she is a Catholic and he is a German Methodist. They couldn’t get
married in Quebec City where she lived, and had to get married in Ontario
where he opened The Imperial Laundry.<br />
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They had two pretty little girls—Eileen May Seifert (my
mother) and two years later Virginia. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lynn at 6 months</td></tr>
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business is going well, and Otto is kind of cute with that big stash, and
he’s busy. Laundry was delivered by horse drawn carriages through the ice, and
they lived next to the stables where the horses were kept. One night he comes home from work, goes into the living room to read the paper, kisses his
little 8-month-old Virginia goodnight, and next…Ruth the maid shrieks that Otto
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In his obituary Otto is described as “a whole hearted self
sacrificing gentleman, a fair and honorable competitor, and an affectionate and
lovable father and husband.” Of Ellen they say he was “blessed with a true and
loyal helpmeet in Mrs. Seifert in weal and woe. In the true wife the husband
finds not affection alone, but a companionship and help to which no other can
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It was mostly woe after that for Ellen. Not much weal. She has a baby and a toddler, her husband dies suddenly and then the evil in-laws tried to leave her with nothing. They decide not to ship
the wedding silver from Seifert jewelers. They went to court over the laundry
businesses and tried to cut her out of the inheritance. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But our heroic Ellen fought! She got lawyers and ancient
documents in elegant handwriting attest to the cases that she won. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So Ellen had to sell the house and the business and go back
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In photos my mother's little sister Virginia looks like
the golden child. The blonde curly hair, the big blue eyes, the faerie-like
appearance. She is five years old and has a leaking heart valve, and boom, Virginia dies.</span><br />
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Now Ellen has lost 50 percent of her young family. This
ruins Ellen and pretty much my mother too, who for the rest of her life thinks she should have been the one to die. My
grandmother rents her clothes and shreds her soul, convinced that God is punishing her because she left the Catholic Church. <o:p></o:p></div>
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She moves with two of her spinster sisters to Old Orchard Beach,
Maine, a favorite summer getaway for Canadians. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ellen the Survivor acquires and manages two pieces of
property, one a hotel and one a guest house where she lived. This big brown shingled house right on the beach, was called The Star of the Sea, at One Atlantic Avenue. I spent summers there as a child. The hotel was The Sea Side House, just a block from the ocean.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My mother meanwhile was glamming it up in London Ontario, hanging
out with Queenie Freeman the heiress to the Bronfman Seagrams fortune.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And running with this fast crowd she had the
misfortune of meeting a handsome cad named Jack Holroyde. They got married and had a son named John.
Within no time Jack was cheating on Lynn and she had to divorce him. One Jutta Walters, is named in the divorce documents. Lynn gets full
custody of John and moves in with her mom in Old Orchard Beach in 1941. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There you have Ellen, a single working mother, with Lynn, a
single working mother raising John, the only child of these two very strong women. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">And Ellen spent the rest of her life working her ass off.
Running two guest properties, enduring World War II, hurricanes, taking care of John while my mother
worked, managing the cooking, the cleaning, the eccentric house guests, a stand
on the beach that sold hotdogs, the repairs, the upkeep, the shopping.</span></div>
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I don’t remember her well at all. She came out to Arizona, where Lynn and my father Peter and I lived, twice for Christmas. I called her Ganna. She called me Bossy Gillis. I
was four when she died.<o:p></o:p><br />
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I can’t help but picture Ellen’s life as somewhat joyless.
So much work, so much endless work, all that responsibility, in a dark little
town in Maine, haunted by the tragedy of Virginia and Otto and all that Catholic guilt. But what a strong woman, man, super strong, super hero strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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One of the condolence letters to my mother says, “I remember
the day we traipsed sand through the house. Your mother never said a thing
about sweeping it up. She just served elegant meals and read our tea leaves.”<o:p></o:p><br />
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So to Ganna, I am sorry you had such sadness in your life.
But you raised a great girl who raised me. Lynn Seifert Holroyde Warren was
really something else. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment--><br />MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-88307350869134270212015-10-25T15:21:00.002-07:002015-10-25T15:21:27.868-07:00Why I Don't Trust Fruit<br /><i>I wrote this in the late 80's. Excuse the dated references. It was published in Read Me, a Seattle literary magazine.</i><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I've
never liked fruit much, but until recently I never knew why.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Suddenly, I realized:</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">I don't trust fruit.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Posturing
itself as a wholesome example of everything that is natural, self-contained and
desirable in a food group, fruit will fool you every time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take a walk through the produce section and you'll see the fruit on proud display, glistening under the artificial
light:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shining strawberries, glowing
grapefruit, beckoning bananas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their
naturally vibrant colors speak to you, the unwary consumer, as your first stop
in an otherwise dreary shopping landscape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But you will come to know what the artist has always known:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fruit is best served as the subject in a
still life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Meanwhile
the aggressive fruit will try desperately to make its way into your lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pineapples are likely to reach out with their
gay festooning and grab you by the shopping list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apples will roll off their precarious
perches of "pomme" pyramids and into your basket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suicidal berries jam the shelves, hoping to
find their way to a sure death at the bottom of the cart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You'll find a certain competition even in the
vegetable bins, as they vie for the same attention given fruit. Tomatoes, still
uncertain about their classification as fruit or vegetable, will try to mate
with the nearby pears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The so-called
"alligator pears" also suffer from an identity crisis, but finally
hope to align themselves with the brazen fruit kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Simply
weasels with a waxy skin, the fruit bandits will succeed in making their way
into a thousand homes, even as we speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And it is at home that the real treachery begins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A glance at the line-up:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>No
greater oxymoron, no greater lie exists than "Red Delicious" apples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Avoid this sign in the
stores the same way you would turn back from a "Wrong Way" sign on
the freeway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Red, certainly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A red so brilliant that you feel you have to
touch, to feel, to buy, to take home, and to get burned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Delicious, certainly not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps to a connoisseur of cardboard,
perhaps to a woodchuck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Distant cousins
of the Red Delicious, with less dishonest names such as Rome, Macintosh and
Pippin, may have a tiny bit more flavor, but let's face it:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>only a worm could be happy with a mouthful of
this stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
pears are simply hand grenades in a garish green camouflage, some sort of wartime surplus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
may become confused and ascribe the rock hard texture of the pear to simply a
stage in the ripening process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will
take the pears home and let them serve as a handsome centerpiece in the
mistaken belief that one day they will ripen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You might as well teach your children to duck and cover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as we lost the conflict in Vietnam, we
will lose the battle to transform the hand grenade into something edible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Unlike
the Red Delicious apple, the orange at least lives up to its name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An orange generally is orange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But anyone expecting an orange flavor within
had better inquire at a carton of Minute Maid, or its goofy colleague Donald
Duck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most oranges taste more like their
citric cousin the lemon, one of the few fruits that delivers what it
promises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
peach, a word that has come to mean a condition of pleasant well-being, is the
hemophiliac of the fruit family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we
all know, "bruise like a peach" has come to describe a person who
turns black and blue at a stern glance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The peach, subject as it is to the constant handling that fruit demands,
will bruise at the slightest provocation, rendering its pulpy insides even slimier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another drawback to the peach is its furry skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the warm and fuzzy lovers among us may
find this endearing, it has absolutely no place in your diet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You'd be better off gnawing on a stuffed
animal, which you'd find tastier too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps we should start a campaign to get the peaches off the shelves
and into the hospital where they belong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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expression sour grapes, meanwhile, was not created from whole cloth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It came from years of collective grape-eating
experience. Grapes are sour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sure, if you spend a long time with a big enough bunch of them, you may
find a sweet one here or there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But why
spend a couple of bucks for a nickel's worth of decent grapes?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the little devils have seeds, you have
another problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless you have the
skill of a professional baseball player at spitting deftly and distantly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>No
wonder they named a disease after berries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Berry squared, wasn't it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
fruits rival the peach for sickliness, and compound the problem with their
treachery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the clans are the
same:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Straws, the Blues, the Blacks
and the Rasps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like sick patients who knowingly infect their partners, berries will stun the consumer after
making their way into homes and hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Somehow, the berries have conspired with the store owners to keep you
from handling them in the store, by demanding a protective wrapper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But like the bride who does not lift her
veil until the wedding night, these berries have something to hide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here you are, hoping only to add a little
color to your monotonous cereal, unwrapping the carton only to find an
unspeakable green mold growing beneath the villainous front-line berries who
conspire to hide their sick brethren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are left once again with plain corn flakes, which you no longer have
an appetite for, and the question of whether you know anyone who has some
penicillin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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melon family fancies itself as powerful and fancy as the Pittsburgh magnates of
the same name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Speaking of this meaty
fruit, we can only agree that the name may carry as much weight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that the grapefruit has made such a
name for itself in the dieting world speaks volumes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People, in a desperate attempt to shed some
pounds, will do almost anything, including choking down this acidic, sour fruit
with a difficult texture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What other
foodstuff, with the exception of a steak, requires a special utensil? You'll
note that people speak of having their grapefruit in the morning with the same
excitement they do of taking the morning constitutional, no doubt with
considerably less pleasure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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represent one of the nastier, more insidious fruits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hiding, as they do, any indication of
ripeness beneath a thick skin of indifference, they force you to go through
ridiculous contortions in the grocery store to determine readiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No doubt you've seen people shaking these
melons, holding them up to their ears and generally carrying on with this tough
fruit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After disgracing yourself thoroughly
in the aisles, you tote the cantankerous cantaloupe home where have no better
chance of getting a ripe one than a melon that did not "speak to
you."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last laugh is on you.
And I assure you that the malicious melons are tittering away in their bins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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its misery at once with a lethal injection of vodka. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Apricots,
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
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the pineapple and its ridiculous foliage has danced its way into many
homes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing as a headdress,
another as an edible, the pineapple demands that you work for your dubious
rewards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You'll need a good knife to
remove its bark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once you're finished, you'll
still be stuck with its bite--a tartness that rivals the more pliant and
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
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yuppie grocery stores across the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
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like "kiwi," "papaya," "mango."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder why such slimy substances with such
cutsey names attract such big prices and popularity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But tell a yuppie he can't have what they're
eating in Maui and Cabo, and you'll be prying the papaya from his cold dead
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-76215973433330291292015-08-14T02:12:00.000-07:002015-08-15T09:51:25.250-07:00Bivalves and Boat Shoes: A Week in Edgartown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When you step onto the tarmac at the postage stamp-sized
airport at Martha’s Vineyard your mission has been established. You are there
to have fun and relax. And you join the other 100,000 summer visitors who share
this goal and the 30,000 locals who are there to support the effort. Let’s
now follow the well worn tread of thousands of boat shoes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My friend Judy and I stayed at the charming <a href="http://www.harbor-view.com/" target="_blank">Harbor View Hotel </a>in Edgartown. This fun-facilitating-facility is located on the Edgartown Harbor featuring
a view of the Edgartown lighthouse and yachts dotting the harbor and just
beyond, the island they lovingly call “Chappy.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our room had a front and center oceanfront view. We had a large suite with lots of windows that let the cool
breezes and the sunshine (every day) pour in.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Harbor View Hotel is like a camp for adults and children. The Kids' Activities sign in the lobby is packed: bingo, corn hole, ring toss, face
painting, crabbing by the lighthouse. For the adults, yoga on the
great lawn, fitness classes, massages by the pool, and Darlene, the magic
concierge, who makes dreams come true. She can get you reservations at the best
restaurants, she can line up a tour of the island, a fishing expedition, she
can find an emergency dentist and knows where to get a broken
computer repaired. She will gladly promote your son’s a Capella group <a href="http://vineyardsound.org/" target="_blank">Vineyard Sound </a>and simultaneously plan a picnic at the beach. She’s a masterful
juggler who uses time and ideas as her props.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The <a href="http://vineyardsound.org/" target="_blank">Vineyard Sound</a>, an all male, college-derived a cappella group was our main draw. Because my son is in it. This 22-year island tradition has a popular following. They perform in four public concerts weekly (Chilmark, Oak Bluffs and Edgartown twice) and can be hired for private events. Ten college students with angelic voices and an amusing show. My son was singing for his supper so we just kept feeding him.<br />
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Day one - Yoga at 8 a.m. on the great lawn, how fabulous is
this? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cool breezes, grass under your
feet, the sun on your face. Only one other person in the class. By noon we were on a two-hour tour of the island that turned into five. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> During our stop in Menemsha for lunch we are introduced to a</span> local man with an enormous basket of steamers just plucked from the mud. It turned out to be Johnny Hoy, local heart-throb and lead singer of <a href="http://www.johnnyhoyandthebluefish.com/" target="_blank">Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish</a>. Look up the schedule and go see them. Appearing on Tuesday nights at "The Ritz." For a five-dollar cover charge Johnny will sing his soul out and have the room
dancing in their boat shoes.<br />
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With Craig at the wheel we went from one end of Martha's Vineyard to the other, pausing on the cliffs of Aquinnah and learning that Chilmark is the most desirable section because the island narrows down to a point where, with the right piece of land, you can see the ocean on both sides. We did some celebrity house spotting from the Jackie
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Day two. No. I can’t sustain a daily rendition of what
happened because time in Martha’s Vineyard warps quickly, true
vacation style; you don’t know what day it is because you sleep as long
as you want and eat what and when you want. You can lie by the pool
in a cabana and be served Caesar salads and truffle
fries; you can sit in a rocking chair on the wraparound porch and read The
Boston Globe or the enchanting Vineyard Gazette, an old-fashioned broadsheet,
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while Moonlight Serenade is playing. You can have nap time every day and a
guaranteed reservation for an excellent restaurant every night (<a href="http://chescasmv.com/" target="_blank">Chesca's</a>, <a href="http://alchemyedgartown.com/" target="_blank">Alchemy</a>, <a href="http://www.thegrillonmainlq.com/" target="_blank">The Grill on Main</a>, <a href="http://www.btbmv.com/" target="_blank">Behind the Bookstore</a>).</div>
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The “hamlet” of Edgartown is just a few minute walk from
the Harbor View Hotel. We had Edgartown by the throat by the end of the week.
We had facials at <a href="https://www.arianna-skincare.com/" target="_blank">Arianna</a><o:p></o:p><br />
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by Ron Getter (Judy renamed him “Go” because of his
amazing ability to sell hundreds of dollars’ worth of Dead Sea products before you knew what had hit you). We enjoyed buying jewelry
at the <a href="http://nikkisedaccagallery.com/" target="_blank">Nikii Sedacca</a> gallery and clothes at <a href="http://www.stinasayre.com/" target="_blank">Stina Sayre </a>and ice cream at…well,
everywhere (Mad Martha's, Scoops, DQ) We finally surrendered and started having ice cream for dinner.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter-Bluefish Sandwich at Behind the Bookstore </td></tr>
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At the <a href="http://www.yourneighborhoodtheatre.com/" target="_blank">Entertainment Cinemas 1 & 2 Edgartown</a> on Main Street, <a href="http://ww.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/" target="_blank">Jaws</a>
has been showing for the past 40 years. They say that nearly everyone on the island had a role in that production. The floor has had so much Coke spilled on it that your feet stick. It’s the kind of place you go to
see Ted 2 and Trainwreck, summer fare with laughs instead of laudits.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All week we asked people what they considered the
secret to life. From the psychiatric nurse on our tour, to the woman at the jewelry store
there was one answer: <i>L</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">et it go.</i> Well,
Ron from Israel had a slightly different take…he said when there is a
problem you “eliminate” it. Which is another form of letting go, just a little
more militant. Martha’s Vineyard is a perfect place to let it go. Just
try not to take it back when you get to the mainland. <o:p></o:p><br />
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MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-38258640329892329572015-05-13T02:37:00.000-07:002015-05-13T02:37:02.565-07:00"Refer Back"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z-EoDroMF1w/VVMYmvC-QDI/AAAAAAAABAI/vJWPzWnCgTk/s1600/Reefer%2BMadness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="155" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z-EoDroMF1w/VVMYmvC-QDI/AAAAAAAABAI/vJWPzWnCgTk/s400/Reefer%2BMadness.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> A "propaganda "movie from 1936</td></tr>
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When people say or write "refer back," it causes me <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/ireefer_madnessi_1936s_most_unintentionally_hilarious_anti-drug_exploitation_film_free_online.html" target="_blank">Reefer Madness</a>.MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-84117860160244413782015-03-17T03:24:00.000-07:002015-03-17T03:24:15.649-07:00It's not that easy bein' green<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"> Bein Green by Kermit the
Frog</b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: center;">:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It's not that easy bein'
green</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Having to spend each day the color of the leaves</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When I think you could be nicer being red or yellow or gold</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Or something much more colorful like that</span></div>
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It's not that easy being
green</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And people tend to pass you over</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Cause you're not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Or stars in the sky</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">But green's the color of
spring</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And green can be cool and friendly-like</span></span></div>
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</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And green can be big like an ocean</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">or important like a mountain</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Or tall like a tree</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">When green is all that
is to be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It could be you wonder</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">But, Why wonder, why wonder</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I'm green, and I'll do fine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And it's beautiful, and I think it's what I wanna be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Like
Kermit, I have had a hard time embracing “bein green.” I am pale green at best.
Decades ago with the advent of the recycling bins I tossed something
plastic into the trash and my friend asked me why. I told him I just really
wasn’t that interested in the environment. What tiny difference would my
contribution make…enough other people were doing it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Then
the indisputable argument: "What about the world your kids are going to inherit?
And your grandkids?” Once I finally remembered to have kids, I had to care. I was
moved to get a little greener.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Earth
Day began in 1970. It went global in 1990 but that was still three years before
I had my first child. Call me a late adopter but the truth is I haven’t even made
a concerted effort to become greener until recent years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I am
perhaps the most well hydrated person on
earth.. I consume a minimum of five 21 ounce plastic bottles of water daily.
I have then at work, I have them in my car, I sneak them into movie theaters in
my purse. That means our household has to have a constant supply of at least three 24 packs from
Costco on hand to feed my habit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">But
then I learned from my son, who attends a “liberal arts” college, that plastic
bottles just aren’t cool. Campus kids use refillable water bottles .All of them
have a CamelBak or some other brand accessorizing their backpacks like the
green badge of courage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">So,
I started being “open minded.” The first step was refilling my plastic waters
instead of throwing them into the overflowing recycling bin. To be honest, I
didn’t do this, my husband (much greener) did it for me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">And then, <i>mirabile dictu</i>, on Christmas of 2014 I
asked Santa to give me a refillable water bottle. Now I can carry this proudly
into business meetings and people don’t look at me like someone who has just arrived
with a small bag of turds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Here’s
one thing I will never go green on—the air drying machines in public restrooms.
They are abhorrent and they don’t work. As my son once said, when he sees one of
those he knows he will be drying his
hands on his jeans, a sort of modern day Mr.Greenjeans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">To raise the ante
on office greenery, our adminstrators have installed the new and modern Dyson hand dryer. This
thing is louder than sitting in the front row of a Rolling Stones concert (yes, I’ve been
there,this is not an analogy). </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dreaded Dyson</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I turn to
the paper towel option immediately. I’m afraid the only way I will ever become
more green in this department is with the return of the “ladies room attendant”
who hands you a cloth towel at the sink.A lovely tradition. I think the last
time I saw that service was at The 21 Club in New York City. Please bring them
back America. It’s a jobs creator and environmental winning combo.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paper towels, ahhh</td></tr>
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in which I have glady gone green:</span></h3>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Going to The Dry Bar to have someone
else use their water and electricity supply to blow dry my hair.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Buying a Mini Cooper. My car-bon
footprint is that of a toddler’s. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Getting my nails done green</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">So
I’ve made inroads into getting green. I'm green light. But I am afraid I will never be forest green.
The color doesn’t become my complexion.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">But
as Kermit concludes by the end of his lament:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I'm green, and I'll do
fine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And it's beautiful, and I think it's what I wanna be</span></span></div>
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MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-34199527515871871632015-03-02T08:25:00.001-08:002015-03-07T12:29:37.791-08:00Seat Back Impressions: First time on Frontier and Alaska Airlines<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">First of all what the hell is an airline named Frontier doing
flying that route? They also go from St. Augustine, FL to Newark. Perhaps I
bring a personal bias about the term “frontier,” having grown up in the desert,
the real "frontier." The word connotes the vast underpopulated
regions of the unknown—like Yuma, or Death Valley—or California--whatever
comes next if you travel west from Tucson. Back in the day, Tucson had a tiny
little airport with about five airlines. One of them was Frontier. I
envisioned a pilot in jeans, boots and a cowboy hat casually strutting across
the dusty runway climbing the stairs two at a time before jumping into the
saddle-fitted cockpit to take control.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grizwald Got Us There</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">But it turns out this
Frontier Airlines is NOT your father’s Frontier Airlines. The new Frontier was
launched in 1994, is based in Denver and serves 76 locations.The old Frontier
Airlines existed from 1950 to 1986 and the first president and co-founder was
my husband’s namesake, Harold (Hal) Darr. We discovered Frontier
when looking for cheap flights from Washington DC to Memphis, TN where my son
attends college.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">The Frontier flight
I was on was a brand new plane, out for its third excursion. When the flight
attendants were wheeling the cart near me I heard one of them inhale deeply and
say “Ahh, I love the smell of new airplane” with much the same relish as Lieutenant Colonel William "Bill" Kilgore when he said “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” in <i>Apocalypse
Now</i>.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Frontier Airlines name
their planes after animals. Oh yes they do. Per the company website “Our
spokesanimals represent our character, commitment to service, and humor<b>. </b>Each
airplane carries a unique spokesanimal from their "stable” of 50. Read
their bios at <a href="http://www.flyfrontier.com/who-we-are/fun-stuff/animal-tales" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Frontier's stable</span></a>. My
favorite is Oscar the Otter whose quote is<b>:</b><i> "Mi aeroplano
es su aeroplano."</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">We flew on Grizwald the
Bear outbound and Foxy the Fox on the return. Their images are on the tail and
disturbingly, also on the wing. If you are seated on the wing and look out the
window, it appears an animal is there. It’s a bit like that 1963 Twilight Zone
episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” where the man was convinced that he saw a
"gremlin" on the wing of the plane. [Millenials, please refer to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dar2HKImK-0" target="_blank">Nightmare at 20.000 Feet</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Humor in air travel is a
core value of mine. It helps me forget I am flying. One of the best lines was when a Southwest flight attendant, during the safety announcements,
said: “If you are traveling with a small child today, what were you thinking?”
So when I received a thin paper napkin with an image of Grizwald the Bear
saying that the napkin could also be used as an eye mask, I thought that was
pretty good. Plus the staff refers to the plane as said animal throughout the
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other hand, has a “smiling Eskimo” as the logo on the tail. We don’t know his
name, his likes or his dislikes. He represents the no-nonsense nature of this
airline. When I booked my reservation I was slightly disturbed by the low
flight numbers. DCA to Seattle was Flight Number One and the return was Flight
Number Three. Really? Why do all the other airlines have flight numbers in the
thousands?</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Are we the virgin flight
for this leg? Reading the history, there is nothing virgin about Alaska Airlines. It started in 1932 with a Stinson single engine three passenger
aircraft. Glad I missed that. But not so glad I missed 1967, when to celebrate
the Alaskan centennial, the flight attendants dressed in Edwardian outfits.
Alaska gets nothing but praise in the industry—in 2010 it was ranked the most
efficient airline operating in the United States. In 2014, JD Power and Associates
ranked Alaska Airlines highest in customer satisfaction of traditional airlines
for the seventh consecutive year. I can see why. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Alaska Airlines flights
are all-business and yet the pilots are kind enough to keep you informed and
reassured about the progress. I find this comforting. I hate radio silence from
the cockpit. It makes me think something is wrong.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I liked the airline as
soon as I boarded because the two flight attendants greeting me told
me I was cute and fawned over me. I was wearing my red winter hat with a black
flower pinned to side.Who cares about complimentary drinks when you can get
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">My seatmate was a
Millennial. When he saw that I was reading David Foster Wallace, <i>Brief
Interviews with Hideous Men,</i> he warmed to me right away. There’s no
better way to bond with a Millennial than to be reading a book by a
drug-addicted suicidal author. We talked about the writer's brilliance
and went immediately to the big DFW question: “Have you read <i>Infinite
Jest</i>?” He said he had not but he knows someone who has. I doubt it. I
don’t think anyone has finished it. That’s why it’s called <i>Infinite
Jest</i>, suggested one writer friend of mine—David had the last laugh on us. I
asked The Millennial if he had flown Alaska Airlines before and how he liked
it. He said no, and he didn’t much care for the cold attitude of the flight
attendants. I said: “They liked me. They told me I was cute.” The
Millennial said: “It’s the hat.” After a suitable interval of witty repartee,
we parted ways to sink into our isolated activities of choice for the next seven hours. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Portland, they say, is the place young people go to retire, Seattle is the place young people go to work themselves to death. Fortunately Portland is just down the coast. If these young Seattle people can survive a few years of well paid 100 plus-hour work weeks, they may be able to comfortably retire there or anywhere. Seattle is the home to Microsoft, Amazon, and Real Networks and <a href="https://www.dwellable.com/" target="_blank">Dwellable</a>* which generate annual revenue of $13.6 billion and account for 188,860 information and communications positions. One of my son's best friends just became number 188,861.</span><br />
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He graduated with a double major in math and computer sciences in three years and was "signed" by Microsoft with a bonus, just like a star athlete. He moved to Seattle in August. It is a blessing and a curse to be thus gifted. He is only 21 and nearly everyone else in the company is 30 something. It is hard to make friends. He works all the time. He has two roommates similarly afflicted, they live the life of Microsoft Monks. On a "normal" work night they order a pizza at 7:16 p.m., they play a video game until 7:36 p.m. when one of them walks down the street to pick up the dinner. They eat, they sleep, they get up early and wait at the convenient Microsoft bus stop to take that hour long ride to Redmond, WA HQ of MS. Lather, rinse, repeat.<br />
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He took me to a charming coffee house in Fremont, an "edgy" neighborhood where many young people congregate and occasionally sleep. My latte swirl was designed as a perfect flower. Before he picked me up, I asked if I should wear a raincoat with a hood to protect my hair. [As any regular reader of my blog will know, I am a big fan of the Dry Bar where I pay to have my hair washed, blown out and flat ironed.] He was right on top of the radar and said the rain was coming later in the day. As he saw me struggling to walk down his street in heels opened an umbrella for me when it started to drizzle he said: "In Seattle no one wears heels because of all of the hills and <i>no one</i> cares about their hair."<br />
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How did he like Seattle? He looked outside at the gray day and grimaced. "Well, when the sun is out it is one of the most spectacularly beautiful places in the world." Apparently Seattle is surrounded by water, lakes, streams, the Puget Sound and two breathtaking mountain ranges the Olympics and the Cascades; with Mount Rainier "in full view" according to the fact sheet produced by the City of Seattle. I saw none of these things.<br />
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Seattle is gray. Seattle needs to go see my hairdresser Blaise.They say in Ireland you never realized there were so many shades of green. Not so the grays of Seattle. It's just one gray.<br />
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My Hotel</h3>
I was there on business, and I stayed at the Grand Hyatt Seattle on a Federal government rate. There is a note in the office travel records which was made by my boss' s former assistant, who left the job about a decade ago. It states a preference for handicapped accessible rooms. Although neither my boss nor I are disabled, the assistant was convinced that this would guarantee us a more spacious rooms. When the desk clerk told me that my handicapped accessible room was ready, I told her I had no need for that type of room. She said that it was stated clearly in my record as a preference. As many times as we have tried to purge this "request" we have not succeeded. When I arrived on the 14th floor the housekeeper dropped what she was doing and came running to me to help me with my briefcase, unlock my room, turn on the lights and in every possible way be solicitous of my needs. I cannot say I objected to this. The room was spacious and there was one very groovy feature, a switch by the bed that allowed me to raise the blinds. Since I stayed on East Coast time (going to bed at 9 p.m. and getting up at 3:30 or 4 a.m.) I was able to stay in bed, flip this switch and get a gorgeous view of downtown Seattle aglow from my ADA aerie.<br />
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The Grand Hyatt Seattle has the old fashioned solution for triskaidekaphobia by eliminating floor 13. But a clever person can decipher that floor 14 <i> really is floor 13. </i>Doesn't it seem an odd choice then to make this the floor for persons with disabilities? Some disabilities are invisible. Take head injury for example, or epilepsy, or...triskaidekaphobia.<br />
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Huge marks for excellent service: I had to call for regular coffee pods in the middle of the night (between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. when neither room service nor housekeeping are open) and the staff member in charge of insomnia came running. I had to have housekeeping fix my clock and an engineer determiSne the source of a banging sound, After waiting for hours to be able to order food, my breakfast in bed couldn't have been more nicely presented or served. I had to ask the bellman for directions and requested the fastest, easiest route. He deadpanned that he prefers to give long and convoluted, confusing directions instead. Irreverence in the bellman! Extra points.<br />
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The only flaw, my dear Grand Hyatt Seattle, is claiming to have a spa, Elaia. There is even an Elaia Spa button on the phone to line up your services. But, snap, the spa is NOT ON SITE. The spa is at the "Hyatt at Olive 8," about a block and a half away. You know what this means? Dressing up, walking outside, risking more hair frizz,and then making the long return. Not right.<br />
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Sweeping generalizations</h3>
All the [young] people in Seattle wear big black framed glasses. How many of the glasses are providing any correction is anyone's guess.They also all wear those hats that have two braided strings in front so that they look like Heidi or Heidhim. <br />
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They really drink coffee all the time. The line in the Starbucks near my hotel was as long as any I've been in. And it's understandable there, it is damp and cold and gray and everyone is working overtime. But just think of the gift this led to the rest of the country when *$ started spreading its way East.<br />
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Sunday night as I was walking down Pike, I saw a street protest and then a "lie-in" (I am not sure if they are called "lie-in's" or "die-ins, but I am ecstatic that they are not called "lay-ins." There were hundreds of people gathered at a major intersection, first some speeches about racism and then the massive lying on the street closing this intersection to traffic, There was a jumble of black framed glasses and braidy hats, North Face jackets and sensible shoes.<br />
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It had been a long work week, I was tired,but when I walked into that store at 7 p.m., I felt as if I had just downed a 5 Hour Energy Drink. All you have to do there is exist and someone will help you. First the Christian Dior makeup salesman swept me away to purchase several items. He tied a ribbon bow on my bag handle just for that special ON (Original Nordstrom) touch.There was a saleswoman in the shoe department who was dressed like a character from the Wizard of Oz. I remember a riotous combination of neon colors, orange top, green skirt, bright yellow tights and dazzling dyed red hair. She went on break before I could get her photo. My buying burn rate per floor was cut in half by a phone call from home. Probably just as well, I have two college tuitions this year.<br />
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I have a friend who was planning to move to Seattle and bought her house in July, a month of little rain, abundant sunshine and spectacular vistas. But she couldn't move there until December. A classic bait and switch move. "You know you are here during the worst time of year," she said.<br />
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Nothing stopped me from enjoying Seattle -- not the fog, not the gray, not the bad hair day, the difficult walking in heels. I saw what people see in Seattle and I liked it.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am in a room at the Holiday Inn in Saratoga Springs, New York to visit my son during Parents' Weekend at Skidmore College. I find there are few things better than a hotel room and time on your hands. This room meets all my basic needs. It has a coffee maker, it has a microwave oven, it has a refrigerator to store my orange juice and water, it has a flat screen TV, it has wireless. Plus, this room is huge. There is a workout room one floor away where I did the StairMaster yesterday and might do the stationary bike today (unless that bike hog is there again). There is room service. I just treated myself to breakfast in bed--granola, fruit and milk. The total was $8.50 including tip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Parents Weekend offers the maximum time to spend enjoying yourself and your child. I get up early, he gets up late, So for four or five hours I get to do some of my favorite things, read and drink coffee in bed (without the nagging feeling that I experience at home that I should jump up, put in some laundry, unload the dishwasher or start doing the bills), write, watch TV with full control of the remo, workout without leaving the premises. There is an assortment of wildly Technicolor trees outside my window. </span><span style="font-size: large;">It's heaven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I used to call business trips the working mother's vacation. This stay reminds me that I don't have to be at a luxury hotel to be happy. The gifts of time and freedom work in a variety of venues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's what I really came to see--my thriving son, now a senior, music director of the Skidmore men's a Capella group, the Bandersnatchers:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-24209255790751670702014-10-13T13:39:00.000-07:002014-10-13T13:41:21.612-07:00US Open Love-Love<br />
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The first thing you see on approach to the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center complex is a big “Globey” (<i>ref.</i> <i>Pee Wee’s Playhouse</i>) which was built for the 1964 New York World’s Fair, and not, in fact, as the gateway to tennis heaven. And make no mistake; the US Open is tennis heaven.<br />
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As a fan of both tennis and travel, I have always dreamed of going
to all of the Gland Slams. But even the small goal of getting to the US Open in
New York was not achievable until I emptied the nest. By the end of August, the
school system has us by the throat. But
this year the nest emptied just in time to make my first slam dream come
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My friend Kathleen, who is both a good traveler and companion,
with a fine sense of direction, jumped on the idea. She lined up the hotel and
the transportation. I bought a ticket package called the “Premiere Wrap-Up Plan”
to attend five sessions Wednesday through Friday <i>of the first week</i>. That’s key, because all the players are still in contention
and the prices are somewhat reasonable. Our seats in Arthur Ashe Stadium were
in the nosebleed section, but somehow it didn't matter because we were rarely
there. You only need the reserved seats for that one stadium. Beyond that you are
free to roam to any of the 16 side courts, and see some of the finest tennis
players on earth at close range.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The vibe of the US Open crowd is high end. It helps to have some
sort of corporate affiliation such as American Express (all cardholders receive
mini earpiece radios which stream the live broadcast. This tool was a multitasker’s
dream. I could listen to the announcers in one ear, my friend with the other
ear, while walking, talking and even eating). Chase Bank members (Kathleen) were
granted entrance to a big beautiful air conditioned lounge with cold beverages and
salty snacks. All I had was a membership in the Starwood hotels chain, which
entitled me to spin a wheel of fortune for a chance to win a free trip. No luck.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The food plaza had offerings you won’t see at many other
sporting events. Like Moet & Chandon and Gray Goose vodka, oh
and pretty good food too. The only thing I have ever been offered at a Redskins
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Being there is completely different from watching tennis in
the comfort of your home on a big flat screen TV (most people’s default excuse
for not attending live sporting events). I have always preferred men’s tennis
to women’s. So kill me, I like men better. But being in the stadium when Venus
Williams is playing brings out the pride of a (largely) US crowd with
tens of thousands of people cheering and willing her to win. It’s powerful.
And when you think about it, the Williams sisters have done more for American
tennis in the recent decades than anyone else, Even if they are women. I like
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The first question everyone asks when you return is who did
you see? I saw Venus, I saw Andy Murray, I saw Djokvic, I saw Sam Querrey. We
also got a good look at the broadcast set-up for Hannah Storm and Chrissy and Brad.
Tony Bennett took a bow for the crowd at an evening game. </div>
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As we were leaving the stadium the final night, I saw Geraldo Rivera
posing for a picture. He attended our alma mater, the University of Arizona when
he was Jerry Rivers. So I tugged on his blazer and said: “We went to U of A.” He
looked at me and, genuinely interested, said “Oh yeah? Bear Down.” “Bear Down Arizona” is our football fight
song. All you have to do is say “bear down” to prove your legitimacy as a
Wildcat. It’s like a secret handshake. My mother was always amused by this phrase
because she thought “bear down” was something you would more likely hear from a
birthing coach than a football coach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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blades are starting to whir. The gentle purring of the the tigers is beginning
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Walt Whitman High School opened a few weeks ago and for the
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My children attended the high school about which <u>The
Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids</u> was written. I can’t provide
you with a review. I think my bookmark is still at page 10. My son was
about to start freshman year, and the book simply made me too anxious.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Walt Whitman is known as one of the best public high
schools in the country. People move to neighborhoods with the sole purpose of
being in the Whitman “cluster” thereby ensuring their children’s academic future.
Sometimes they buy houses they don’t even like, but, by God, they are in the right
school district. College recruiters light up when they see an application from Whitman. Students get a few extra points just for going there, in addition to
the fact that their grades are very high and their SAT scores off the charts. The
student body is dense with genius and sparse on density.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But Whitman is stressful. Being so smart and self-aware, even
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There is something for everyone at Whitman, drama, robotics,
fashion design, computer science, business internships, student government, international
community service trips and a range of academic offerings sure to satisfy any
brainiac and his or her helicopter or tiger parents. The kids have a tremendous
sense of school spirit, and regularly break records for fundraising efforts.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Once in the Whitman community, you receive on average 15 daily
emails: did you pay your PTSA dues, did you subscribe to the student newspaper,
did you eat at a certain local restaurant to raise funds for x y or z club, did
you pay for the parking pass, did you know the boys’ volleyball team is the
playoffs, did you get your health forms in and have your baseline concussion
testing, did you want to sign up for a trip to France during spring break, have
you paid senior dues, returned all your books? Will you go to club night, international
night, homecoming, prom, take the spirit bus to support the girls’ soccer state
championships? Do you know a good physics tutor, a chemistry tutor, how about a
writing coach for college essays? The artistic talent flows in that school just
as thickly as IQ points. The annual student-run Talent Show approximates a
Broadway production, and can sell out a 1,000 seat auditorium for up to three
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The County has developed two tools of torture that can
cripple a stress-prone parent. About as much fun as water-boarding, Edline is a program that lets parents access daily reports of every grade in every
classroom. It fluctuates wildly like the stock market. This can be a blessing
and a curse, there is kind of mother
(whirring sound) who checks Edline every day and confronts his or her child about
a missed homework assignment or a poor grade OR the kind of mother I became with my second child, unplugged from Edline. He shot my helicopter right out of
the sky. I have to thank him, there was a corresponding drop in my
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Whitman hosts a meeting for parents and juniors on how
to navigate the college search process. At this meeting you are handed a
sharp and dangerous tool called Naviance. This program allows you to compare
your student’s GPA and SAT to the records of how Whitman students fared in college
admissions over the past five years. My favorite moment at
Whitman was when I left that meeting and was followed by a member of the
Stressbusters committee who went into a tirade about why that meeting is always geared to the student with the 3.75 grade
point average. I wanted to tell her that’s who the audience is; if a kid who
attends that meeting with a parent, there’s no doubt he or she has at least
that kind of GPA. Most parents come alone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When the bell rang on the final day of senior year, I felt
as if I had finished a marathon. I felt as if I were the graduate, flooded by
relief. When I see the WHSS bumper stickers on cars I can only read the acronym one way: Whitman High School Survivor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-11726930288225183892014-09-19T03:12:00.002-07:002014-09-19T03:12:46.883-07:00How things are different since the boys have gone to college, month one...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dining room has never been used again.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dishwasher only needs to be run every other day.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is nobody to ask to mow the lawn...and ask and ask.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No one plays the piano.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are not six to eight pairs of shoes left in the entryway as
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no reason to buy 2% milk. Only skim.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We keep the doors to their rooms closed so that we can
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MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-3017825812999142372014-08-31T10:38:00.000-07:002014-08-31T10:38:34.481-07:00Ten reasons I [remembered] why I love New York<div class="MsoNormal">
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Cousin Fred lives there and he is funny.
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MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-9893207112621132772014-08-30T16:23:00.002-07:002014-08-31T05:34:28.128-07:00Transit-ions<div class="MsoNormal">
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College Drop Off--A 15-hour drive to Memphis (<b>878 miles</b>) </h3>
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Tennessee is one long state. It's a good thing the Mississippi River is there to bring it to a halt. The bridge over it goes to Arkansas, I was told, a different state. The long drive had a happy ending for the weary travelers. (Weary except for Franky, who true to form, slept most of the day.) We arrived at the soothing Peabody
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Next was move-in day for Rhodes College. There was a
great deal more spirit about this process than we found at Skidmore. On the
long stretch of road waiting to get in the main gate there were several groups of kids
jumping up and down with glee, shrieking and holding signs that said "Honk if
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My son is in a triple with roommates from Arlington, VA and suburban Memphis. One bathroom adjoins another triple where we met a
couple of nice guys from Atlanta. The
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Trip from Memphis to Louisville (<b>429 miles)</b></h3>
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I only agreed to drive to Memphis if we could stop and see
our friends who live in Louisville “on the way” home. Was it on the way? Not exactly. Was it worth
it? A thousand times. We met these friends who were in the TV news business in
Tucson in the 80s. The media in Tucson were tight. We bonded with Paul and Carolyn immediately
and spent a couple of lovely years together during the pre-kids, early-career
nonsense days. But then they started moving up the media market ladder, had
three children, while we moved to DC and had two. And suddenly 20 years
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">and Facebook we felt that this reunion was possible after the last child was dropped at college. But we knew we could pick up where we laughed off and we did for two fabulous days. I demanded a tour around Louisville because I had never been there.</span></td></tr>
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Trip from Louisville to Bethesda (601<b> miles)</b></h3>
Let’s skip this 11 and a half hour drive. Let’s just say that
about an hour outside of Washington, with the end in sight, the highway was closed,
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MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-4742277343493196332014-07-28T16:15:00.001-07:002014-08-30T17:59:19.434-07:00"Dali Really Melted the Clock on this Country"<h2>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">I was invited to submit a guest travel story to Dwellable.com and it ran today</span>:</h2>
...<a href="http://www.spain.info/" style="background-color: white; color: #0088cc; font-family: 'Noto Serif', 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; text-decoration: none;">Spain</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3a4145; font-family: 'Noto Serif', 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;"> runs on caffeine. It has to. Because everyone there walks fast, talks fast, drives fast, and takes high speed trains. Spaniards ignore the night and never eat </span><nobr style="background-color: white; color: #3a4145; font-family: 'Noto Serif', 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.dwellable.com/blog/#" id="FALINK_1_0_0" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(243, 91, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-width: 0px 0px 1px !important; color: rgb(243, 91, 0) !important; display: inline !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important;">dinner</a></nobr><span style="background-color: white; color: #3a4145; font-family: 'Noto Serif', 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;"> before 10 p.m. My son reported that clubbing goes on until at least 5 a.m. Because of its time warp, Spain is a great place for travel if you want to see five cities in eight days, and never feel rushed. We saw </span><a href="http://www.esmadrid.com/en/portal.do" style="background-color: white; color: #0088cc; font-family: 'Noto Serif', 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; text-decoration: none;">Madrid</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3a4145; font-family: 'Noto Serif', 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;">, </span><a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/379" style="background-color: white; color: #0088cc; font-family: 'Noto Serif', 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; text-decoration: none;">Toledo</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3a4145; font-family: 'Noto Serif', 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;">, </span><a href="http://granadatur.com/en/" style="background-color: white; color: #0088cc; font-family: 'Noto Serif', 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; text-decoration: none;">Granada</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3a4145; font-family: 'Noto Serif', 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;">, </span><a href="http://english.turismodecordoba.org/index2.cfm" style="background-color: white; color: #0088cc; font-family: 'Noto Serif', 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; text-decoration: none;">Cordoba</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3a4145; font-family: 'Noto Serif', 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;">, and </span><a href="http://www.spain.info/en/que-quieres/ciudades-pueblos/grandes-ciudades/sevilla.html" style="background-color: white; color: #0088cc; font-family: 'Noto Serif', 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; text-decoration: none;">Seville</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3a4145; font-family: 'Noto Serif', 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px;"> and had time to enjoy them all...</span><br />
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Read the rest:<br />http://www.dwellable.com/blog/</h2>
<br />MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-45208136381130948962014-07-23T15:17:00.000-07:002014-08-31T06:55:30.438-07:00Rozita Made Me Do It<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kY7PWoHTZ8A/U9Ai6UXB7WI/AAAAAAAAAuw/tMnmjx-F_KE/s1600/rozita.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kY7PWoHTZ8A/U9Ai6UXB7WI/AAAAAAAAAuw/tMnmjx-F_KE/s1600/rozita.JPG" height="320" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rozita snares customer</td></tr>
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Last weekend I did something I never do. I had a makeover at
the Lancome counter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have been wearing my makeup the same way since my mother
marched me into the Fosi Modeling and Talent Agency in Tucson, Arizona.. I don’t know how old I
was—10, 11, 12? But I must have been pretty young because I didn't know what
the word “features” meant. On first evaluation, Miss Fosi told my mother I
had some nice features to work with. I had to ask my mother what she meant.
Miss Fosi had enough makeup on for both of us. She
told me that the most fattening thing I could put in my mouth was a grape. By
this she meant wine, and I am still not sure why she was saying this to a 10/11/12
year old.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So I learned the drill: a couple of layers of mascara,
eyeliner, foundation, blush and lipstick. These were the basics and still are
and I don’t leave home without them. No eye shadow because my mother said it the
invention of Satan.</div>
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When I was able to climb up from the Ponds
and Neutrogena level, I chose the Lancome line, sleek and black and French and glam.
But in recent years they betrayed me twice. They discontinued my favorite
mascara and foundation. So, acting out like a girl who had been
dumped by her boyfriend, I took up with someone else immediately—Christian Dior got both
the mascara and foundation business. I wouldn't even look at the Lancome ladies
as I passed. I would show them. Dior had a Diorshow Mascara (“a big show
mascara inspired by models behind the scenes runway trick.”)<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mascara is very important to me...</td></tr>
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Lancome pulled me back in me with a rival to Diorshow, the introduction
of a big fat stick of Hypnose Drama mascara. And in truth I had been monogamous with
Lancome for so long that it did seem silly to have to go to TWO counters just
for some foundation. </div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-utTYxkKtyYo/U9ArMV3HwfI/AAAAAAAAAvc/Ybr5jnQpALk/s1600/Lancome-Alber-Elbaz-Hypnose-Drama-Mascara-600x800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-utTYxkKtyYo/U9ArMV3HwfI/AAAAAAAAAvc/Ybr5jnQpALk/s1600/Lancome-Alber-Elbaz-Hypnose-Drama-Mascara-600x800.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like my mascara like my humor, dark and black</td></tr>
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Then I met Rozita at the Lancome counter. I was charmed by Rosita and she convinced me I should book a makeover. To my surprise
I said yes, giving up part of my precious Saturday because Rozita is someone
you can’t say no to.</div>
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I got to sit in the high chair as I had seen so many women
do over the years, but then again, they probably had not enjoyed the childhood
benefit of Miss Flossie. It was a bit of a bait and switch because Rozita
turned me over to the make-up pro of the day, Odetta from Lithuania.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Odetta: "Questions?"</td></tr>
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When I
told Odetta I was in the market for white skinny jeans and didn't have much
time left, it being mid-July and all, we talked about the ridiculous convention of not wearing
white until Memorial Day and after Labor Day. The Lithuanians are not burdened by this tradition. Odetta took about a half hour to make me over, I
learned that I must exfoliate, put on the Energy before the base, use a pencil
instead of a liquid liner and use eye cream morning and night. At the end
Odetta stood back in a very business-like fashion, looked at me and said: “Questions?”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The stuff I am supposed to use</td></tr>
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I had fun at the makeover, and it pumped me up to do more
shopping...a couple of skinny jeans and a Christina Maldonado dress that I got to
model for all of my new Lancôme BFFs.</div>
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Rozita took my phone number and I will undoubtedly respond
to her siren’s call, the next promotion, the next deal. She indeed has me
hypnosed. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wearing my new jeggings at the Nats game. Don't want to get the white ones dirty.</td></tr>
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MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-61538241234605092942014-07-09T16:20:00.002-07:002014-07-09T16:20:32.349-07:00The Peabody Memphis has its Ducks in a Row<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Peabody Memphis built in 1925, originally in 1869</td></tr>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">There is nothing like a stay at an
old fashioned luxury hotel. We just experienced ours at the Peabody </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Memphis</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> Hotel. My son is going to Rhodes college in Memphis in the fall and as soon as
I found out there was a Rhodes rate at the Peabody I booked it. The desk clerk asked if
I would like to upgrade to a superior room. I immediately accepted, as I am
wont to do. So we got a deluxe corner room on the 10th </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">floor and
could see the Mississippi River from our window.</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> The beds felt like clouds with an excess of downy pillows; and the design of the room, well I am
sure The Peabody won’t mind if I show you one of their photos.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Room at the Peabody</td></tr>
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I just like elevators doors that look like this:<br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> I like hearing Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra in the breakfast room. I like the
exquisite service, with staff members greeting me every few yards and offering help. I like getting up in the morning, having the newspaper delivered
in a special bag:</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1ZAdkWg6wHs/U7239ceAXeI/AAAAAAAAAs8/BJ6VAx80r8Q/s1600/Peabodybag.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1ZAdkWg6wHs/U7239ceAXeI/AAAAAAAAAs8/BJ6VAx80r8Q/s1600/Peabodybag.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">and heading to a deluxe health club. I like
room service, especially when it rolls in on a cart between our beds. </span></div>
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I am sure I could live quite
happily in a hotel like this, become a modern day Eloise. I promise I would work out
every day. There’s a spa where I could get my hair and nails done, there is food and drink and shopping and what in the world more do I need? The occasional trip to the rooftop to get some air and see the sunset over the Mississippi:<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunset over the Mississippi</td></tr>
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I read that the Peabody's lobby is “the living room of the mid-south" which has been visited by “some of
the most influential and famous people of the world.” A Southern historian
called The Peabody “the Paris Ritz...the London Savoy of this [Delta] region.” Well no
wonder I loved it.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The living room of the Mid South"</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ktiIJkzDEzk/U723VkkR_OI/AAAAAAAAAsM/eEF7vCIDSY0/s1600/DucksPeabody.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ktiIJkzDEzk/U723VkkR_OI/AAAAAAAAAsM/eEF7vCIDSY0/s1600/DucksPeabody.JPG" height="320" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just off the red carpet, vogueing</td></tr>
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<b>The Ducks</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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If you have ever heard of the
Peabody, you have heard of the ducks. The expression “ducks in a row” may have
started here in the 30’s. The duck procession occurs every morning at 11 where
they come down the elevator and march in a row
on a red carpet into the beautiful marble fountain topped by a flower
arrangement the size of a washing machine. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who gets this floral contract?</td></tr>
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There is much pomp and circumstance
leading up to the arrival of the ducks, there is a man in a red uniform who
tells the legend and history of the ducks. Everyone must be seated in the
lobby, no standing is politely enforced and then once the ducks splash in, it
is photo opp time. The same ritual goes on at 5 p.m. when they return to their
penthouse enclosure.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>No Exit at the Gift Shop</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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My son needed a sweatshirt so we
popped into the gift shop. Let me back up by saying that my son has incredible
blond curly hair that has drawn attention from strangers since he was a toddler,-stop-on-the-street
attention. So much attention, in fact. that the tiresome question of “where did
you get that curly blond hair” forced me to become a blonde. Here it is: <o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The famous hair</td></tr>
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But never has it attracted as much attention
as it did by an employee in the Peabody gift shop who had her hands in my son’s hair
in minutes, was raving about it and said it was so pretty she had to put a bow
in it. She went behind the counter, cut a blue ribbon and and sat him down
and fixed him up. Talk about your Southern hospitality.<br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I pledge my allegiance to the Peabody.
I expect to be going to Memphis several times over the next four years and I
will stay nowhere else. I will just pack, quack and go. I encourage you to do
the same.</span><br />
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MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-18858286840816570572014-07-06T14:48:00.000-07:002014-07-06T14:48:09.495-07:00Are you Really in the Years? Sixteenth 4th in the Hood.<br />
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When we reluctantly left the city to move to the suburbs, we thought we might as well go all out and get a Norman Rockwell kind of neighborhood. The kind that has The Great Pumpkin, Santa Claus on a fire truck, and our very own Fourth of July parade and picnic at the park. We found it, Wood Acres, Bethesda, Maryland. We live on the very street the parade comes down, so just have to look outside to see if it's started and head down to watch. It isn't much of a parade, bicycle brigade, Boy Scouts, local politicians, a decorated pick up truck loaded with kids throwing candy and our friend Margaret's husband dressed up as Uncle Sam reading the Declaration of Independence as he walks. Margaret always heads straight for us, takes a picture, and yesterday she turned over the archives:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Better than fireworks--a visit from Joe Rhodes, Traipsmobile* King<br /><br />* See August 2012 blog "Visiting Dignitary"</td></tr>
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<br />MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-45240947706629946832014-04-26T16:49:00.001-07:002014-04-27T03:54:05.850-07:00Seven Glamour Tips Before a Trip to Europe<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></span>Everyone has been raving about the
new gel polish that lasts up to two weeks. My plain manicure chips by the time
I open the car door. I refused to believe it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s just a little toxicity issue, the gel
requires you to put your hands under a UV lamp and the removal requires acetone.
But for a vacation—you don’t want to be spending time touching up your nails or
getting a manicure. This is how my nails look after 10 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So please, pick your poison.<o:p></o:p><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I</span>f you have long hair, for God’s sake, go to <a href="http://www.thedrybar.com/" target="_blank">The Dry Bar</a> the
day before you leave and get a blow out and buy a dry shampoo, a spray. This
way you won’t have to wash your hair for up to a week. Just like your mothers and grandmothers used to do. And you will be spared
the misery of standing in a hotel bathroom with a blow dryer and a curling hot
iron wasting up to 40 minutes of valuable vacation time.<o:p></o:p><br />
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</span>It goes without saying that you will have had a pedicure.
But here’s the most important thing, you have to buy the most comfortable,
durable, but, of course, glamourous, walking shoes. Why? Because on a European tour you will be walking miles every day. My favorite brand is Arche, a
French company— buckskin leather on top, which feels like you are in bedroom
slippers, and a latex sole that will never make it to heaven because it just
won’t die. You gotta spend the dough ($299) if you want to save your toes. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When you announce that you are going to Spain the only
thing previous travelers say is that you are going to be pick-pocketed. Gypsies, tramps
and thieves everywhere. If you are a large-pursed woman who thinks you will
magically turn into a small-pursed woman during the trip, forget it right now.
I bought this smart little nylon bag and knew I could wear it across my chest
and be safe. I was safe but boy was I miserable. I wanted all my stuff from my big bag. Since
no glamourous woman would sport a backpack, the other solution seems to be the
cinched bag string backpack. If you want to buy one before you leave that says
Coach or Louis Vuitton, go ahead, if you can find it, but most likely you will
be in a souvenir shop buying one of these, throwing the small purse in it and
thinking it was the best purchase you ever made.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the hotel desk, ask for a local running map and start your day exploring the
neighborhood to get oriented and the adrenaline flowing. My husband told me to
take money in case I got lost and needed a cab home. But I would show him. I did
everything<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wrong—I didn’t ask for the
map, I had a wonderful run around downtown Madrid and while climbing the steep steps
to get a closer look at the sculpture of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, I gouged
my shin. I became hopelessly disoriented and had to hail a cab to get back to the
hotel. The moral of the story here is skip the morning run. You will walk so
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But fair warning, you are going to be walking, hiking and climbing up 37-story bell towers just about all day every day. Sometimes on medieval streets, cobblestones, dirt roads,and marble.
You must be ready for this. Everyone in my family
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Wherever you stand on the carry-on versus checked luggage, we
all agree the bag of liquids is a pain. There is no way you can get your large
Lancome Milky Cleanser through security, so give it up. Use facial wipes. Any brand you like. These
goofy little things are neither liquid nor solid, neither fish nor foul, so
they don’t count in your liquids bag and they are remarkably effective and
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Margo and Peter in a horse carriage in Sevilla. Much more to come. </h4>
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<br />MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-11800276374026381032013-12-29T10:12:00.000-08:002013-12-29T10:12:54.801-08:00The Year in Review (2013)<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Okay, let’s do the year in review. I know it is a little early,
but I am having dinner guests on New Year’s Eve, so I will be too busy for the next
couple of days, getting a manicure, going to The Dry Bar, shopping and cooking.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Thanks to the old-school pocket calendar which I fill in
throughout the year, I have been able to recreate the highlights of 2013.
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Karenina, Django Unchained, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Salmon Fishing on the
Yemen, Zero Dark Thirty, To Rome with Love, The Master, The Queen of
Versailles, Searching for Sugarman, Quartet, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Central
Park Five, All the President’s Men, The New World, Frances Ha, Before Midnight,
One Eyed Jack, Cloud Atlas, The Seekers, Lawrence of Arabia, The Usual
Suspects, The Prestige, The Graduate, Adaptation, Bernie, The Science of Sleep,
Blue Jasmine, Rush, Captain Phillips, Giant, Nashville, Notorious<o:p></o:p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cultural Outings:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> T</span>hree plays: Good People, the Book
of Mormon, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. I went to the Phillips
Gallery twice, once with Peter and another time with Kathleen to see the preview
of the Van Gogh show; I took Peter to the Holocaust Museum and I attended the National
Book Festival to see Linda Ronstadt.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Trips:</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went to Honolulu on business in February;
spent spring break traipsing around the dreary NJ, CT, NY, PA area looking at
colleges (only to learn that Franky wanted to go south); spent a week in Martha’s
Vineyard, thanks to Peter’s best-ever summer job as a member of the Vineyard
Sound a cappella group; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>back to Cape Cod
with Jane for a visit to Susan in East Falmouth, and then one more time to
Martha’s Vineyard for Peter retrieval; and went to Saratoga Springs, NY for Parents’
Weekend at Skidmore. <strong>Conspicuous by their absence: </strong>New York City, Tucson, California and Maine. Gotta fix that next year.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Books:</b> I now
belong to two book clubs, so I am always reading for one or the other; sometimes
they overlap so I have to skip one, but overall it has upped my reading and steered
me toward books I would otherwise never pick up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here are a few we have covered in the two
clubs: The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B., Sandra Gulland (Part
One of a Trilogy); The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout; War and Peace, Tolstoy
(ongoing, four-part book club); American Pastoral (in progress) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Operation Shylock by Phillip Roth; Things
Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe; Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf; Age<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of Innocence, Elizabeth Wharton; O Pioneers,
Willa Cather; Madame Bovary, Flaubert; Therese Raquin, Zola; Excellent Women, Barbara
Pym;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cannery Row, Steinbeck; The Power
and the Glory, Graham Greene; What’s Bred in the Bone, Robertson Davies; The Sheltering
Sky, Paul Bowles; the Road from Coorain, Jill Ker Conway…okay I am going back
more than one year...so kill me. I didn’t do this exercise last year. <o:p></o:p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Accidents</b>: I
broke my toe; I broke my nose (tennis); and in an “unfortunate spinning
accident” my foot came out of the pedal going at top speed into my shin and I
required 11 stitches. First and last spinning class.</div>
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played tennis and took yoga classes. I quit Equinox, an expensive health club,
which I was under-utilizing at $140 a month; and became obsessed with The Dry Bar, and for
$200 a month may never have to wash or dry my hair again. Ooops, $140 a month
habit dropped, $200 a month habit taken up. Even I can do the math on that one.
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So as they used to say: “Mother is going to take in a little sewing.” I started freelance proofreading last summer and am very happily employed by
HealthyLivinG, a monthly magazine based
in Beverly Hills, which keeps me busy in my increasing spare time; and sends
me checks which I am banking for our trip to Madrid to see Peter next spring;
but after that, may apply to my new major purchase.</div>
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determined</b>: Franky took over the search, found seven schools in the south
and two in California; has been admitted to two early action, is waiting to hear
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<o:p></o:p> For a variety of reasons, I am much happier this
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MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-85411691168897189182013-12-12T19:04:00.001-08:002013-12-29T10:13:19.421-08:00'Been a long time since I rock and rolled. Been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely, lonely time..."<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you don’t love early Zeppelin, then I guess you didn’t
grow up in the 70’s. When Jason Werth chose Dazed and
Confused as his walk-up music, my respect for him soared. I am pretty sure I was at a Led Zeppelin concert in Phoenix. Almost positive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Basically I’ve been too busy proofing and editing the
work of others to have time for my own writing. Proofreading teaches you a lot
about writing. I’m beginning to agree with Mark Twain’s opinion of adverbs: 'I
am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me.' I have delighted in
deleting a ton of adverbs and throwing them in the dead word pile.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then Peter came home from
college and had a spontaneous reunion with his Beatles cover band at a pre-Thanksgiving party. "Ringo" arrived with his hair dyed blond. I guess this is what happens when you go to Brown.</span><br />
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On Thanksgiving I did this:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">... cooked the turkey upside down. Not on purpose. I am finally able to share this shame. I
meant to, yeah, that’s the yarn we are spinning. Cooking it upside down allows the juices to flow to the breast
and make it moister. But once my husband started to carve the back he noticed a paucity of
meat. Flipped it and there was, well, the turkey as we expect to see it. All that malt barley glaze
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Senior year at high school has come to this: guy poms. It is
also a time of uncharacteristic interest in the snail mail. Franky has applied early
action to four schools, so any day now, or week, or month, we could hear
something. <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I'm still reading War and Peace, but I have made it to the half way point (600 pages), and now am very interested in what will happen to Boris, Natasha, Moose and Squirrel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And now we slip into the stress-packed month of December.
No I haven’t done the shopping,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shipped the
presents, gotten the tree, written the cards or decorated the house yet. Could
be a long time again, long time, a long lonely, lonely time until I return to the
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MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-31656564101102732952013-10-16T15:16:00.000-07:002013-10-16T15:17:57.015-07:00Logue-ing Out Day 16, The Party's Over<br />
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I think this is really it, I think I will be in a place called an office tomorrow doing something they call work.<br />
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But I will always fondly remember the furlough and my extended period of freedom. I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.<br />
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So, did I achieve all my Day One goals? I had a few LLLWOF (long leisurely lunches with old friends); I organized stuff--the college files, the bills and paperwork, the jewelry, winter summer closets; I read 157 pages of War and Peace. I exercised until I was forced to stop. I had a couple of manicures and blow-outs. I saw a couple of movies (Gravity and Rush).<br />
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I learned that I don't have enough exercise clothes to last a full week.<br />
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I learned that you shouldn't wait for a furlough to catch up with old friends. MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-91639883269188879342013-10-13T06:40:00.003-07:002013-10-16T14:49:11.042-07:00Furlogue Day 13-Well,This Was Not Supposed to Happen<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I had been sticking to my "exercise everyday" part of the furlough program. I even agreed to try some classes at my friend's new fitness club. Friday I went with her to a Zumba class, and that went fine, it's just getting cardio in a different way, and since we have had days of rain I can't run anyway.<br />
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Saturday morning I agreed to meet my friend for a spinning class. I have never spun before. I've never been keen on cycling, except for the fact that it is the only exercise you can do sitting down. But again, what harm could it do to try another round of guaranteed indoor cardio?<br />
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Halfway through class we were told to stand on our bikes and I did but my foot slipped out of the pedal clip and the pedal continued to spin around very fast, making a big gouge into my shin. Once I realized I was bleeding profusely, I left the class and the staff was very solicitous but agreed that I needed to go to the hospital for stitches. <br />
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My husband came to get me and drove to Suburban Hospital ER. There was a soothing volunteer who just shook her head when I arrived and said "It's always you women who exercise." I had just been there in May for the broken nose--from tennis, so maybe she has a point. <br />
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But a spinning class accident? Never seen one before. Or so claimed all the medical staff I saw. From RN's to ER Techs there was great laughter. Glad I was able to bring some levity into their day.<br />
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Finally the Physician's Assistant came to stitch me up. She was lovely and we talked talked tennis and carrying heavy purses and raising teens. Then she said I needed to lay off exercise for the next 10 days. What?!<br />
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"No running?"<br />
"No."<br />
"Not even yoga?"<br />
"No."<br />
"How about mat Pilates?"<br />
"No. You can sit."<br />
"And?" <br />
"And sit."<br />
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Sitting out 10 days of furlough, I thought, I might as well be wor..., I mean writing.MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5312222150677276082.post-39749796349435776742013-10-10T16:51:00.000-07:002013-10-13T06:30:15.369-07:00Furlogue Day 10-Rain Delay<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Today we the furloughed workers were put on rain delay. It was pouring rain all day which meant we could stay home and do nothing, without guilt.[Note the importance of the comma in that sentence.]<br />
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I read some War and Peace and did a little work on my personal computer email which I have never bothered to sort/delete/or file since I purchased it a year and a half ago.<br />
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At the suggestion of a friend I started Scandal Season One. I love it and could easily go binge watching. I talked to a lot of people on the phone.<br />
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It is supposed to rain like this for the next three days. So I signed up for an 8:45 a.m. Zumba class.MargoWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11234662142311445799noreply@blogger.com0