Good Luck ... on this novel idea! --- Roger Horchow
Roger Horchow is a great friend and the founder of The Horchow Collection. He is a marketing genius and innovative leader in retailing and catalogs, as well as producer of successful Broadway musicals. --- Letitia Baldrige
In "MIND-Blogging with Tish!" - also referred to as "Roses and Brickbats," I promise to throw roses at the feet of gracious, politely-behaved people, and brickbats at the feet of rude, aggressively offensive ones (who thankfully are in the minority.) Some of whom you may know, many of whom you don't know --- nor wish to know! If you will read my biography, hopefully you will conclude that my qualifications are good for the role of pitcher of roses and brickbats. Because of the half-century spent as a small business-owner, and my years in diplomatic service in our embassies abroad, and certainly because of my years as social secretary to the White House as well as chief of staff to Jacqueline Kennedy, I've had the luck of "being in the room" during an important chunk of American history.
And as I now sit tapping away on my personal computer in our apartment on Embassy Row on Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, I am over looking the rooftops of embassies, museums, and historical buildings, including a white mansion that is home to the president of the United States and his family. In "the old days" I felt I had a small part in the making of history; now, as an octogenarian, I can only overlook the scene below me of Washington, and savor its memories.
Everywhere my eyes turn - over the roofs of the historic mansions with their gardens and mini-parks, down to the great green velvet sweep of the Mall and beyond, to the Potomac, I am dazzled by the dignity of the many trees, standing like Associate Justices of the Supreme Court on their very special chessboard. There is, of course, no escape from the intrusion of the cars in this panorama, no matter how practiced your vision may be in erasing them from the canvas. Today, in this new Obama Era, there is excitement in the air - social excitement, one might even call it.
I am delighted that my partner, Alinda Lewris, will be facilitating this new endeavor. I am also presently at work on my twenty-fourth book, about life today, as seen through a pair of, well, let's face it, experienced eyes. ... So please join us as we navigate through the social seas as best we can, talking to one another in civilized tones. We should be thinking about how we sound as well as what we are saying.
Letitia Baldrige "TISH"
1 January 2010
We are pleased to announce that Letitia Baldrige's "MIND-Blogging with TISH" is an exclusive IAPC Member Benefit. Please see: www.ChoosingCivility.org
By Cherlynn CONETSCO and Alinda LEWRIS | August 14, 2009 at 07:48 AM EDT | No Comments
Glorious Lives in Pursuit of Excellence and Humanity: Julia Child (15 August 1912 - 12 August 2004) and Eunice Kennedy Shriver (July 10, 1921 - August 11, 2009)
America recently lost two remarkable women: Julia Child in August 2004 and Eunice Kennedy Shriver - just this week. Both of whom I was privileged to know.
By Cherlynn CONETSCO and Alinda LEWRIS | August 08, 2009 at 07:34 AM EDT | No Comments
... A Washington hostess in whom the American presidential family was not the least bit interested would never allow such an idea to go unchallenged, because it could definitely harm her image.
By Cherlynn CONETSCO and Alinda LEWRIS | July 30, 2009 at 05:32 AM EDT | No Comments
“What The Heck Is Happening…” is a writing style that would have resulted in instant rejection by the nuns who were trying to teach us good English back in my convent days in the 1930’s. (If those same nuns were alive today, they would probably be sick with language-rage.) All generations seem to be hitting on our beloved language, particularly that used in today’s films, plays, originally composed songs, and poetry, with the result that this language is bruised and hurting. At least most of the time.
... To participate and have the opportunity to personally add your comments and ask questions, please see: B&L Circle of Friends.
By Cherlynn CONETSCO and Alinda LEWRIS | July 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM EDT | No Comments
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