By Wendy Jacobson on 12/4/2009 12:02 AM

 We are blessed with rich soil that nourishes the plants we eat and we are 'blessed' with the rich and famous whose special dirt supplies us with dish of another kind entirely.

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By Wendy Jacobson on 9/10/2009 10:54 PM

 Fear Factor Georgia; Earthly and superrnatural dangers lurk in the Cracker State.

 

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By Wendy Jacobson on 7/31/2009 12:53 PM

Another stunning observation- the desert is the opposite of anxiety;
It’s  just to @#^&#$ hot to fret.

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By Wendy Jacobson on 7/23/2009 1:46 AM

Shore(t) Takes: Compare and Contrast the Hamptons to Los Angeles, with a little New York City too.

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By Wendy Jacobson on 6/5/2009 5:29 PM

Part 1:
    When did a simple ‘thank you’ become ‘thank you so much!’, even if you just hand someone a tissue.  And when did ‘have a nice day’ become ‘have a FANTASTIC day!’? When did ‘fine’ morph into ‘amazing’, ‘pretty’ into ‘stunning’, ‘cute’ into ‘absolutely adorable!’? Nothing is just ‘good’ anymore; it’s ‘Soo Good’.  Food is ‘scrumptious’.  Meat isn’t simply ‘tender’, it’s ‘like butter’! Fruit isn’t ‘ripe’, it’s ‘Perfect’. The new movie is ‘hysterical’! That hairclip…it’s ‘HOT’!!
    The flip side of all of this ecstatic hyperbole is the crushing condemnation when something like a restaurant isn’t ‘fabulous’. The food isn’t ‘bad’ it’s ‘abominable’, the service isn’t ‘poor’ it’s ‘tragic’, the space isn’t ‘tired’, it’s a ‘rat-infested dump’.
   
    I’m stuck on “thank you so much!. First of all, holding open th ... Read More »

By Wendy Jacobson on 5/5/2009 10:04 AM

What with the state of the world and the state of the state, worries abound. What's a gal to do? Go shopping of course. But does it solve as many problems as it promises to or unleash a fresh set of anxieties.  

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By Wendy Jacobson on 4/25/2009 10:57 AM

    Last week I was grinding my teeth in empathy as Chris Matthews attempted to conduct an intelligent interview with former Representative Tom Delay, who was being as responsive as a sock puppet, about Rick Perry, Governor of Texas. Perry had threatened Texas might have to secede from the nation! Just who in ‘tarnation do those people think they are? When suddenly it struck me…it’s the perfect way out of a relationship that soured long ago.                         

    “Go why don’tcha! And don’t let New Mexico hit you in the -- on the way out.”
    Honestly what are we losing? 1200 gun dealers in the Houston area alone. I think we’ll be just fine without Waco, 13 million met ... Read More »

By Wendy Jacobson on 3/31/2009 5:49 PM

This is my blog; in which I promise not to use the phrase “in these tough times” or any other tired idiom. I also promise not to say, ‘acclaimed’ because well I can’t stand that word. Anything that claims to be acclaimed usually isn’t very. Other than those two things I make no promises.

What’s this blog about? Well, DR and I were chatting about how everything no matter how remote seems connected in some way to the Hamptons. It may take a few connections, but rarely more than two and hardly ever six degrees of separation exist between us, The Hamptons, and them, the world beyond. It all washes up on our shores at some point.

So as my dear friend, not really, Fareed Zakaria would say,
“Let’s get started.”

I was pulling into the hockey rink at Abraham’s Path a couple months ago and saw the most bizarre object -rubbery and flesh colored- hanging from the rear bumper of a truck parked there. I let my son out of the car withou ... Read More »