winners & losers 

  

 
the new jacks 

  

shore weekend

 
spent the weekend at LaraBel's shore house in Point Pleasant with these lovely ladies... 

 
my favorite jersey girls 

 
 

  

  

wtc five years later

I worked a half day today, met up with V and headed down to WTC to grab lunch in the courtyard at the World Financial Center (gorgeous day) and then catch Oliver Stone's movie. It was my idea to watch the movie down there - thought it would be fitting, however, I had no idea how I'd react. Some New Yorkers have complained that with WTC and United 93, that it's too soon. I totally understand why.

I knew that I would cry watching the movie, but what I didn't know was that I would start to cry a few minutes into it. 9/11 was an absolutely gorgeous morning with the skies amazing clear and bright, I was in the midst of gearing up for our trip to Ireland and Spain, and then IT happened. Watching this movie brought back a lot of memories - vivid images and emotions from that day, the couple of times that me and my friends spent volunteering at the Ground Zero respite centers, and lastly, the day that SG took me out to lunch to break the news that he's enlisted in the Army.

The NY Times captures the jist of the movie fittingly:

“World Trade Center” is, from the first frame to last, almost unbearably moving. It could hardly be otherwise, given the facts of the story and the memories it will stir up.

It is this combination of frantic action with stunned, shocked impotence that “World Trade Center” most effectively reproduces.

Mr. Stone has taken a public tragedy and turned it into something at once genuinely stirring and terribly sad. His film offers both a harrowing return to a singular, disastrous episode in the recent past and a refuge from the ugly, depressing realities of its aftermath.

Don't get me wrong. I'm happy to have seen the movie, but now I have to figure out how to dig myself out of this melancholy funk. Not even a shoe and purse shopping trip to Century 21 helped. Maybe the thing to do is just let it take its natural course... Luckily, I'm headed out of town first thing in the AM with Chett... Maybe the weekend at the Shore will be a bit uplifting.

tact

Being in PR, I love this quote:

"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy." --Howard W. Newton

silly

"Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again." --Mike Myers, actor

hmmmm....

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

--Annie Dillard, American author and Nobel Prize recipient

arrrrrepas!

 

Alphabet City: drinks with ben, scott and lucy before we hit Caracas 

some random pics from my DC trip in june

 
waiting in line at Olsson's 

 
celebrity booksigning 

  

 
that's Ralph Nader behind me! 

 
next up to meet the man of the hour 

 
I thought I had seen everything in DC, but this new World War II memorial was a treat -- especially on a gorgeous, sun-filled day. 

 
flips get some acknowledgement for their support during the war  

 
women, too!  

 
 
the perfect way to spend my last morning in the MD/DC area... at the golf course!

 
an Ethiopian family style meal in DC 

 
chicagobob swings 

 
k and m