Green Chile and Zozobra

I love goings-on as a tourist – I’m totally down to go to your local garlic festival or llama parade or county fair or fireworks display, and to sample some regional cuisine while I’m at it.  So here’s a post… Continue Reading

A Moment of Frisson

First off, hat tip to Musette for her fabulous post on Bill Evans last week – she introduced me to Bill just a few weeks ago and he’s been the soundtrack around here ever since.  Second, it’s snowing. I’m guessing… Continue Reading

Let’s Talk About Beauty Pie

This was going to be a post on more fragrances by Frank Voelkl, who did the Olfactory tea scent I reviewed recently (as well as the wildly successful Glossier You.) The fragrance post is still being worked on, so today… Continue Reading

#@*%! Comments?!?! Please try again…

I hear that, once again, there have been issues with commenting on the Posse.  We use WordPress comment “widgets” which, not to get too technical, are designed in some dank, airless basement by aliens from Jupiter while they sip motor… Continue Reading

Just Peachy!

Here in the Heartland, it’s time to harvest white peaches.  Unlike the yellows, which are pretty cooperative, white peaches can be divas.  My next door neighbor’s tree has, for the past 4 years, borne gorgeous bunches of fruit that has… Continue Reading

Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie

There’s something (still)  wrong with my computer – I can’t download photos so you get no gorgeous  vizs of burgers, ribs, potato salad, cole slaw…oh, yes…it’s that Most Wonderful Time of the Year:  Fourth of Ju-ly!  I love this holiday … Continue Reading

7 Billion Reasons to Love CBIHatePerfume

A Short Tale of Brooklyn and CBIHatePerfume..and 7 Billion Hearts, one of the Best Vanilla Perfumes on the planet.                                                                                                                                                                                                      Anybody who’s ever spent time in New York knows it has one of the best subway systems in the… Continue Reading