only you

only you

four years ago today i started to get cramps in my face from smiling too much.  not really a pretty image, huh? and it hurt too.  there were tears also. happy tears. but mostly smiles. a wide, uncontainable, starting from my stomach, finishing out to the tops of my...
happiness is….

happiness is….

happiness is a new day. another chance, another audition for one’s shiniest, sweetest, best-tasting life. a stab to re-do all the mistakes and oversights made in the past, such as last’s night midnight face dive into my mom’s homemade, spinach...
rules of civility

rules of civility

last night i finally finished amor towles’ rules of civility, a light, wannabe-gatsby novel, set in new york’s 1930’s, involving romance, the dawning of the independent woman, an america emerging out of a depression, and deception. the novel was a...
a lesson from the sun…..

a lesson from the sun…..

even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, “you owe me.” look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky. -Hafiz, a Persian poet of the 1300 a lesson indeed. i’m giving thanks titanic and wee on this beautiful, september morning....
a fashionable night!

a fashionable night!

last night i was steeped in deep glamor. scoring an invite from my always-in-the-fashion-mix friend, the stunning mary jo matsumoto, i headed up to los angeles for my first fashion’s night out.  the dress called for one’s favorite little black dress. my...