Is there no Aristocracy in America?

October 24, 2010.Reading time 10 minutes.

I am deeply intrigued by a statement made in the October 2010 issue of Vanity Fair. Within the text of a story about the bitter rivalry of Rupert Murdoch and Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. – titled “Two Men and a Newsstand”- author Sarah Ellison writes, “In America, there is no aristocracy or upper class in the […]

Letter to President Obama

June 8, 2010.Reading time 8 minutes.

Dear Mr. President, Please stop blaming the media so much. I want you to LIVE down there until this problem is solved. I want you to throw crude oil all over the Executive Management Board of BP and the Board of Directors homes in BP – in Europe – so they can understand what the […]

Closing

March 22, 2009.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Our house closing is in less than 12 hours!! OMG!! SO EXCITING~! Happy happy happy!

Moving

March 20, 2009.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I find this clip to be incredibly moving… http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/js/2.0/video/evp/module.js?loc=dom&vid=/video/showbiz/2009/03/20/von.richardson.lights.dimmed.wabcEmbedded video from CNN Video Just so sad…

Boarding School

March 7, 2009.Reading time 3 minutes.

Photo owned by: Lisa Richmond In this rough financial climate, everyone is certainly on their toes. However, this AM when I opened up my New York Times, I didn’t necessarily plan on reading this article, which really tugged at my heart-strings and to be honest, made me quite upset! http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/business/07conserve.html The Conserve School basically just […]

Ellen and the Hawaiian chair

January 15, 2009.Reading time less than 1 minute.

My BFF Libby just put this hysterical link on her blog. I had an awful day and I really needed the laugh this funny clip from Ellen provided. I will do an update soon, I’ve just had a lot of stuff going on personally… : (