Category: reality (not)
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Lessons in Living from ‘The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning’
Last week kind of got away from me. It was eventful. Our cats chased a mouse from the screened in porch (we have a crack under the door) and into the house during the final Vanderpump Rules Reunion episode. This has happened once or twice before, and usually, my live-in mouse remover/exterminator XFE takes charge…
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Reality TV Time: Escape to the Country
If you are a reasonably cautious person, you are now well into your fifth month of quarantine/self-isolation/stay-at-home/work-from-home-ness. Congratulations on caring not only for your own health, but for your community as a whole. I’m sure, like most of us, you are hankering for a getaway. Maybe a trip abroad (HA!). Or, slightly more realistically, someplace…
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RIP Live PD
I don’t think I’m being overly dramatic when I say: It has been a couple of seriously heavy weeks in this country. And, honestly, I don’t even feel like writing. Literally, the only writing I seem to be able to force myself to do is contractually obligated items with a hard deadline. I’m in awe…
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Hair Accessories to Cover the Quarantine Grays (Inspired by Bravo)
As Leslie Jordan of Instagram fame would say: Hello, all you fellow hunker downers. (I know you’re already following him on Instagram. He’s got 3.5 million followers. But if you’re not, you should. His hot takes on quarantining are gold. Pure, Instagram gold.) So, it’s getting to be that time. No, not time to begin…
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Reality TV Time: Too Hot to Handle
Whelp, Netflix has done it again. The streaming TV service is legit winning the quarantine game, releasing one splendid, bingeworthy, let’s-forget-what-day-it-is-and-escape-this-hellish-landscape-called-modern-life program after another. Their latest offering: #THTH, otherwise known as “Too Hot to Handle.” (I know I said I was going to talk about Tiger King, but honestly, in this fast-paced, binging environment, TK…
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Lessons on Professionalism from Bravo’s ‘Below Deck’
I have a client in the meetings and events industry and I was submitting a couple of story pitches to them this week, based on a new survey of event planners. One of the key takeaways from the survey is that 59% of planners say a lack of professionalism among the venue management and staff…
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Reality TV Time: Southern Charm New Orleans
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: having a cold sucks. Especially in the summer. I’ve been sick for about a week. And it really sucks. It’s also been raining in D.C. for basically a month. Sure, there were a couple of days of modest sunshine, but mostly, it’s been rain: warm, humid,…
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How I Plan to Be Super Chill and Eat Waffles in 2018
Here we are a week into the new year and I must say my overwhelming feeling so far in 2018 is that the dumpster fire that was 2017 is far from over. That seems mighty pessimistic, I know. On a personal and professional level (and without getting too personal), last year was a bit bumpy,…
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Reality TV Time: Below Deck Mediterranean
My travel-buddy-for-life XFE and I just got back from a soccer roadtrip through the South, which was basically 3,000 miles of varying degrees of traffic and highways broken up by stops for soccer (go Tottenham), kitschy tourist locales (I’d never been to South of the Border, but I have now), barhopping at country honkytonks (Nashville…