#influenced

It’s mid-August. If it’s summer in your locale, folks are on vacation, at the beach, at the pool, stuck at home or the office, eating fresh, ripe tomatoes and the last of the peaches … you get the idea. (If… Continue Reading

When Tech Attacks!!!

My darling Posse! I was at Old Orchard Shopping Mall on the North Shore yesterday, doing some retail therapy… and I was going to tell you allll about it – but everything !!! Every Single Device!!! has turned on me… Continue Reading

Summertime!

We will just call this one a rehash, or a trip down memory lane. It’s July and we are now firmly in the grip of summer here in LA. A grip that is not as firm as it is in… Continue Reading

Mother’s Day

So this past weekend (as you are reading this) was Mother’s Day. I am writing this more than a week before, so I will tell you what I will be doing rather than what I did. I am going to… Continue Reading

Happy … spring? Winter? Spinter?

Hey everyone! Well it was in the 70s, until it snowed (again) on Saturday, melted yesterday, lather rinse repeat.  Our official last frost date is mid-May, which I abide by; I had a friend who pushed it last year and… Continue Reading

Culling Perfume Excess: How Do You Do It?

Hiya Perfumistas, Many of us are not just perfumistas, we are PERFUME HOARDERS! We have many, many, many bottles, decants, samples and other fragrant paraphernalia. More than we will ever use in our lifetimes, and probably that of all our… Continue Reading

Pumpkins, Spice, and the Not-So-Nice

Well we got through another Hallowe’en.  That day is a big, big deal in our little neck of the woods because West Hollywood closes off Santa Monica Boulevard for the legendary Hallowe’en Carnivale. It started as kind of a local… Continue Reading