I feel like the older I get, the more casual I become. Moving from New York to Los Angeles fifteen years ago didn't help, since a lot of the time I'm ensconced in a car, as opposed to on display on the 23rd street subway station waiting for the N train. Sometimes I wonder what my younger Marie Claire-beauty-editor self would have said to my now wiser, and less caring of others opinions, self if told...
Read MoreReally January? I’m supposed to clean and organize my house, start exercising, get a hobby, lose five pounds, AND get my taxes in order in the name of new year resolutions? Well, the universe had other plans; my washer and dryer broke, the car died, and I got the flu ( and not even the stomach flu, that at least, would have taken care of the five pounds!).
Read MoreOne of the oddest observations for me when I moved to LA in the mid-90’s, was how many in the Mexican-American community were totally bonkers for Morrissey. At first, I couldn’t think of what connection a kid from Montebello could possibly have with a (now) middle-aged man from Manchester, but as always, angst, alienation, unrequited love and an appreciation of beautiful words are universal.
Read MoreWhile my gravestone will probably never be inscribed with the anything even close to “Very politically active and well informed”, I still like to do my part. My undercover pet causes are usually anything to do with fighting abuse towards women, children or dogs. Anyway, all the recent palaver about getting rid of Planned Parenthood drives me bananas.
Read MoreI’m a Swede who lives in the Silver Lake part of Los Angeles. I like my design functional with oodles of color, never met a pompom I didn’t like, could quite happily road-test lipgloss for the rest of my life and am on the constant search for the perfect T-shirt. I was a magazine editor for 15 years, wrote a bunch of books that gave teen girls more beauty tips than they’ll ever need and owned a design store…not all at the same time.
Current obsessions: Chola-girl eyeliner, Clare V. french T-shirts, leaving chia seeds in plain yogurt overnight so it turns into pudding and the CVT soft serve ice cream truck. This will change, I can be fickle.
