Monthly Archives: August 2023

……………….This August will be two years since Chris and I went to Africa………..A trip of a lifetime……….Great times……..Great Memories!

………………….I have been paying school taxes for years and years, even though I never had any children……At 75 I think it’s time the government gave us seniors a break!

……………………..Jac and her older sister Marianne…..As children they were always together….Jac adored her older sister…….From 16 on Jac traveled a lot and eventually at 20 got her own apartment in NYC….I was just easier for work than commuting back and forth from Larchmont, NY……Marianne had many jobs. She speaks five languages fluently and became a translator at the UN where her father worked, but found it very boring. She was even a flight attendant for a short while, but thought it was a glorified waitress, and quit. She even worked in a hospital helping foreign speaking pregnant women navigate their stay…….She finally found her dream job with Este Lauder, and was their world wide representative traveling all over the world giving seminars and training the staffs on the newest products for many years….She did this until she married and retired to Mass with her husband. Horses were and are her passion and she competed in jumping….She doesn’t compete anymore, but still owns two horses…..Marianne is an or 11 year [or more]  lung cancer survivor. It was rare that two sisters had lung cancer even thought their types of cancers were totally different…..They were both  treated by Dr. Shaw at Mass General…..and were both given medications, though different, that Dr. Shaw developed……Marianne is still taking hers, and is cancer free…..Marianne is the last survivor of her family. Her father’s family were all killed in Belgium during WW11…..We keep in touch, and let each other know how we are doing…..that’s what Jac would have wanted.

………………..WILLIAM FREIDKIN…..a brilliant director is dead at the age of 87…..He directed some of the best films ever made….two of which are …”THE FRENCH CONNECTION”…..and “THE EXORCIST”……….The Exorcist was one of the scariest movies I have ever scene, and I’m sure I’m not the only one!….He also made two of the most controversial movies ever made……”Cruising” with Al Pacino, and “Boys in the Band”…….His work will live on for ever.

…………………..Gisele……..one of my favorite models…..She wasn’t “classically” beautiful, but she moved like a gazelle! She had a great body and a wonderful personality……This fall show in the late 80s was at Lincoln Center. Her jacket and vest were in a wool jacquard from Italy, and a salt and pepper tweed skirt. The shirt was white silk……..Gisele has something that was hard to define…..She was just a natural!