Last Picked
Happy Friday! Well you made it another week. Good for me and you, eh? How did this week do ya? How did this month do ya for that matter?
It’s flown by on a breeze and I’m left wondering where it went and left looking at its back. Now here it is October and Fall is here for real- real.The garden thing is officially done. Here you see the end of our labors.
The last picked. Aren’t these last pick tomatoes and peppers just beautiful? Sometimes those that are picked last can be the most special. The ones with the most promise. There’s no shame in being the last picked.“…so the last shall be the first…”Best,
KwanaPassion makes Perfect
A friend of mine (thanks PIC) recently reminded me of my love of TED so I stopped on by ted.com and watched this video with the amazing novelist Isabel Allende talking about passion.
We women can make all the difference.
Enjoy.Oh, Happy October!
Best,
KwanaTis the season
The first raking of the fall and it’s only the beginning. We’ll soon be covered.Gee I forgot about this when economizing with the gardener. Sigh. Oh well, it will be good exercise.
Best,KwanaOh Jack!
What’s Jack up to? Jack has been such a trip lately. Sending us all on wild Jack chases.
Running out of our yard to a neighbor’s yard on the street behind us just when we think he’s being good and proper. Not.
Then it was the other day when I was ready to give him a bath and he decided to send me running in a circle after him. Well, I put a stop to that once I got in enough exercise to get winded. Pla–eaze. Jack ended up hiding under the bed for an hour and me, well, I do have patience sometimes. I did finally get my man, um, dog as you can see here.
Now here he is nice and fluffy and on his leash but still not too happy with me. Check out the evil eye. Humph! I’m not moved…much.
Best,
KwanaAnna and Grace a Love Story
Hello Monday! How was the weekend everyone? It’s sort of still going on with it being a holiday today and the family is home.
This weekend I did get in a bit of fun going to see The September Issue with my good buddy PVE. Now Patricia was the perfect person to see this with since we’ve been friends for X number of years when we were both still working in fashion BC (before children).
I thoroughly enjoyed The September Issue or Anna and Grace A Love Story as I’m calling it.
The whole story arc that pitted Anna Wintour and Grace Coddington (Vogue’s creative director) against each other, but still united in their love of fashion and Vogue was wonderful. I was sucked in by the fact that both women started at Vogue on the same day over 20 years ago. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in those days.
It does make me wonder if people will one day think of me and my friend PVE once we’re both big names. Her a famous artist and me a bestselling author (wink,wink-Universe).
Will they wonder how we were back all those years when we were still cubicle girls in the fashion biz? Still wide eyed dreamers tottering on our heels and looking for recognition. I wonder.
I do know we’ll still be dreamers.Once a dreamer, always a dreamer.
Best,
KwanaJust Dance
So the opposite of all the blood, drama and Eskimos? of the MTV VMA awards…
On this Friday let’s Just Dance with P.S. 22’s class to Lady Gaga’s Just Dance.
Thanks for the video, Wendy!Have a wonderful weekend.
Best,
KwanaFashion on the Brain
I’ve got fashion on the brain. It’s that lovely in between time in New York right now when you just don’t know what you’ll get weather wise at any given moment so you need to be ready for anything.
I’d love some easy pants, comfy driving shoes in a few great colors, a fab trench coat and of course a to die for bag (you all know me). This lovely lady was taken from The Satorialist and she totally fits my bill.
Friend and author Melissa Walker was featured on NPR talking about her picks for fashion books. You can listen here:You can read the full article and read more about the books here.
Melissa is the author of Violet On The Runway YA series.
Best,
KwanaJust Chillin’
What’s Jack up to? Just Chillin’. I mean really, who wouldn’t want this dog’s life? It’s the opposite of my multi-tasking post the other day. Jack is so not into multi-tasking. Let’s all take note.
Have a great Wednesday and take a Jack moment today!Best,
KwanaHappy Birthday Ma!!
Happy Birthday to my Mom today! Yep, that’s her and I from when I was a little girl. Both of us smiling big and bright just like folks would do in one of those old Woolworth’s photo booths. You can recognize the pic from my avatar to the right there.As you can see from the pic below Ma has hardly changed at all, though now I’m the taller one. She’s still gorgeous and fabulous and still the same bit of unpredictability she was back then. From her Psalm 23 tattoo, you never know what’s in store with my mom. Not what dress she’ll be wearing or what hair color will go with it. But that’s the charm of Ms. Kay!This weekend Ma staged a girl’s night out at Roseland ballroom to celebrate her birthday. And when I say staged, I mean staged (guess I get a bit of my control tendencies from her). We had a great time dancing the night away to songs from the 50’s to the 70’s. All of us wearing tiara’s that Ma supplied so folks in the club kept saying Happy Birthday to all of us.
It was a great night and so nice of her to share her birthday joy with all of us.
Happy Birthday Ma!!We Love you!DD, DS, DH and Jackand
I Love You too!Your daughter,KwanaMulti-Multi Tasking
What’s Jack up to? Jack is being Jack. A little bossy, a little cute, so very Jack. Keeping me on my toes.
It’s early Monday, well, late Sunday night as I’m writing this and already I’m overwhelmed with the family schedule this week. Not just this week, this year really. As women we are the keepers of the schedules. Ours and everyone else’s. Annoyingly, I found myself taking unnecessarily drives this weekend to classes that didn’t happen because I didn’t have a teen’s schedule memorized in my head. Not that said teen should not have had their own schedule down. Sigh.
To make things just that more nutty, I’m already thinking ahead to the new year. January and February. So much so that the beautiful months of October and November are getting lost in the shuffle as just pages I’m flipping on the calender.
And in all of this I’m terribly afraid of dropping the ball. That my whole house of cards will come tumbling down from all my multi-tasking.
Knock Knock. Is it just me knocking at this door? Think I need a cup of tea and a moment to think about this.
Oh and thanks to Prof Melissa Harris-Lacewell on twitter for pointing me in the direction of this article from The Huffington Post on the ever growing unhappiness of women and and multi-tasking. A longtime sign of the times.
Best,
Kwana
