Respectability

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: Amusement & Respectability. –Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country Source I’m deeply disappointed… devastated, really… about our 2016 Election Day results. And that’s all I will say about that.

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Friendship and Blogs

I’ve recently called into question many people I am friends with. I realized that many people I am friends with on Facebook are not people that I’d tell I was getting married on a specific date… or eventually… if I got pregnant. So I deleted a lot of them. I don’t need them in my […]

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Do I want to be a Litigator?

Do I want to be a litigator? I was asked this question on Friday by my boss at my internship. She is a fantastic attorney, with a family life and is from a similar background as me (same congressional district, grew up on a farm in rural VA). She went to a small liberal arts […]

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Is there no Aristocracy in America?

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 […]

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Letter to President Obama

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 […]

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Boarding School

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 […]

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oh jeez

Was anyone else yesterday distracted by Lady Aretha Franklin’s hat? I mean, I know the gays and trans-gendereds love her so I am SUUUUURE this hat will be copy-catted all over the place!!! My goodness!

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