Food Friday: Splashy Summer Cocktails (and Real Simple photo)

When you start seeing photos like this of yourself in national magazines and people start writing about you like this—”Anna’s wardrobe isn’t drab, she loves color!”—it’s time to get out Martha Stewart’s Hors D’oeuvres Handbook and serve something appropriate for the outfit. However, I can’t POSSIBLY cook dressed like this, so I will have to…

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Behind the scenes at Real Simple

So last week, I was one of five lucky women to be photographed in NYC for a story in the July 2008 issue of Real Simple. The story is about “upgrading your casual look” and upgrade me they did, with a hot pink and orange Tory Burch linen top and a pair of 7 for…

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Mama’s got a new pair of shoes

It was awesome, wonderful and amazing, and I can’t wait to share all the photos and stories later. Like wait til you hear all the amazing celebrities my MANICURIST has worked on. That she told me about while she was doing my nails and toes. But in the meantime, I have two little monkeys here…

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A question and a pimple

Do you believe it’s wrong to encourage ill-mannered behavior that you are ultimately going to abolish if you can encourage it just long enough to get it on video? Just wondering. I’ll show you the evidence if we get it. *    *   * In other news, it seems like I will be facing the…

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Come out, come out, wherever you are

Sorry for the repeat, but this photo is comedy GOLD, how could I not rerun it? A few times a year in the blogging world you see posts about Delurking Day—a day when bloggers request that their readers briefly leave the shelter of their anonymity and leave a comment on their blog. But since I…

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