Betty Halbreich is who I want to end up being. She’s 86, no longer cares what anyone thinks, has 12 closets of gorgeous, classic clothing, and is the founder of Bergdorf-Goodman’s personal shopping service. I’ve been to BG once, was so intimated with how posh it is that I walked in one door and went right back out the next. I’m less dainty society woman and more bull in a china shop, but I love beautiful things. So does Betty, which is a big basis […]
Love the Player, Love the Game
I picked up The Game by Terry Schott off of Book Bub for free and expected it to be…well…awful because I’ve had a rough streak of free books, but I was pleasantly surprised instead. The Game is about a world (Tygon) where they send children and teens in a virtual reality simulation where the objective is to live long, happy and productive lives set on another planet (sounds boring but it’s trickier than it seems and there are “other” players in the game that work […]
Stranger Than Fiction – An Unflinching Memoir
I recall seeing a very passionate recommendation for this book in the comments section of a Pajiba movie review, and I ordered a while back, without a lot of thought. And I mention this only because it means I had no idea what this book was about, or what I was getting into. All I knew, I insinuated from the beautiful cover — a young woman on a beach, her pronounced indifference seemingly daring the photographer — and everyone else — to try to capture even one small […]
Sometimes Creative Means Are Better For Processing Things
I come to read a book on with grief through creative arts therapies at a time wherein I face the impending death of a family member. And I am restless. Being a fidgety person to begin with, I can’t keep my hands still when my mind is full of all kinds of thoughts: preparing for courses in school, learning about grief for an upcoming class, dealing with loss and grief myself, and all other kinds of things. And so I draw. My hands take what […]