How to Own Your Beauty, Show up and Shine… When I was fifteen my seventeen-year-old boyfriend unceremoniously dumped me for an older girl. He was bored. “Why did you get together with me?” I tearfully asked, thinking only of my winsome personality. “I thought you were pretty — and sexy,” he said. Sexy? I had […]
Amy and I say to hell with body shame
The May cover of InStyle Magazine features Amy Schumer, looking glamorous as she floats on her back in a swimming pool. I too have a recent photo of myself floating in a pool. There is a slight difference as I didn’t have a team of professionals at my shoot (thanks Jerry!) but I like my […]
A Couple of Curly Girls: A Mother/Daughter Love Story
When I was growing up in the 1960s, my mom and I set our hair on plastic rollers. Mom’s hair was short and mine was long and often in girly pigtails, but neither of us wanted frizz. By the 70s blow dryers appeared, and in high school I spent hours taming my waves into a […]
A funny thing happened on the way to my closet
On the first warm day of this brilliant, technicolor spring, I reached into my closet for one of my lightweight favorites, a delicately striped pink and white linen t-shirt. Off we went to Sonoma to enjoy the day. While walking around the square I paused to admire a blouse in the window of one of […]
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