Happy Losar! (Tibetan New Year)
Happy Losar!
Happy Tibetan New Year!
Happy Losar!
Happy Tibetan New Year!
Yesterday as I stepped out of my St. Louis apartment to walk my five blocks to the Metrolink, I opened the door to snow. Journeys in one’s 50s are different than in ones 20s…but yesterday I did my best to meet all the little twirks of modern travel with a measure of joie de vivre….
“There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.” —Gandhi Wendy Tremayne, mother of the Swap-O-Rama, based in NYC, a brilliant art from recycled materials project, tells us the next Swap-O-Rama has arrived. In between Swap-O-Rama’s she’s been hosting a weekly fabric art party where fabric, friends and fun come…
The Wall Street Journal online also quoted Diane Thompson Regulators Scrutinized In Mortgage Meltdown By Greg Ip and Damiam Paletta ….”It is extremely rare, for individual matters, to get relief from either the state or the federal regulators,” says Diane Thompson, her attorney. A Wachovia spokeswoman declined to comment on the settlement but noted the…
Riehlife: My blog is about connection and cultures and art. How do you see these themes relating in your business in the hospitality industry? Theo: The culture of business and the culture of people always are connected. My favorite example? The Carlton has been getting rave reviews from guests ever since our reopening, which means,…
After dinner (that’s the mid-day meal in the country, folks) on the back eating porch, my father rested his eyes gazing outdoors to the garden and the hemlock tree. “I planted that tree 60 years ago,” Pop said, “It’s grown some. I can remember the day I planted it. We had some hemlocks for sale,…
I needed to have a going away party. And, so I did. Atop one of the loveliest, furthest-sweeping views of Clear Lake, at the Riviera Heights Club House, 30 friends–artists, writers, musicians, actors–met to celebrate the day, our art connections, good food (from the Mexican Restaurant T&T at the Lake), home-made music, singing, dancing, poetry,…