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On the Town: Huffington and Didion at Columbia Spectator Dinner

February 17, 2011 by WendyB

On the Town: Huffington and Didion at Columbia Spectator Dinner

I work on a lot of non-jewelry and non-blog projects, but I don’t always write about them here. One of those — which I alluded to in this December post but didn’t name — is my chairmanship of the board of alumni trustees of the Columbia Daily Spectator, my alma mater‘s student newspaper. I was…

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Filed Under: authors, awards, Celebrities, columbia daily spectator, Good Causes, gorgeous family, on the town, outfit post, pictures of me, What Wendy Wore, zang toi

Norris Church Mailer and the Importance of Newspapers

November 23, 2010 by WendyB

Norris Church Mailer and the Importance of Newspapers

I was online all morning yesterday and didn’t get to open the paper version of the New York Times till early afternoon. I was flipping past the obituary pages because I’d already seen the story about the death of Playboy-Bunny-turned-cop-turned-murderer-turned-fugitive Laurie “Bambi” Bembenek all over the web, but then I glimpsed another story made me…

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Filed Under: authors, charity, newspapers, obits

Feathers, Water, Looking Glass and an Imaginary Pig

July 17, 2010 by WendyB

Feathers, Water, Looking Glass and an Imaginary Pig

When I was in first grade, I read Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll and was confused by the passage where Alice was rowing a boat with a sheep in it. I wasn’t disturbed by the fact that she was in the boat with the sheep, or that the sheep spoke and knitted….

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Filed Under: books, Castelbajac, designers, museums, pictures of me, travel Tagged With: Alice Through the Looking Glass, Jean Charles de Castelbajac

Jewel of the Month: Xenobia Ring

July 7, 2010 by WendyB

Jewel of the Month: Xenobia Ring

While on my way to Washington, D.C., last month for an interview with the hometown paper, I was browsing the vampire section of the airport bookstore when another book jumped out at me. Not literally, of course. It wasn’t an evil zombie book that was trying to kill me.  I just noticed it because the…

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Filed Under: books, jewel of the month, queens, rings, sale

Book Club: A Distant Mirror, the Finale

April 16, 2010 by WendyB

Book Club: A Distant Mirror, the Finale

For this post, the fourth and final one on my favorite history book, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitious 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, I wish I had a deep-voiced television announcer to say, “Previously on Wendy Brandes Jewelry …” and give a summary of the three preceding posts. Since I don’t have that guy, I’ll…

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Filed Under: book club, books, History, my designs, necklaces, pictures of me Tagged With: a distant mirror

Book Club: A Distant Mirror, Part III

April 1, 2010 by WendyB

Book Club: A Distant Mirror, Part III

Welcome to Part III of my report on A Distant Mirror, The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman. Read Part I and Part II to get yourselves oriented. On Saturday, in my second of a series of posts on the book A Distant Mirror, I listed the disasters of the 1300s. Those included what Tuchman…

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Filed Under: book club, books, gorgeous family, History, pictures of me, travel Tagged With: a distant mirror, barbara tuchman

Book Club: A Distant Mirror, Part II

March 27, 2010 by WendyB

Book Club: A Distant Mirror, Part II

Today is a day for celebration: it is the one-year-and-one-day procrastination-versary of my introduction to my favorite history book, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman. On March 26, 2009, I posted about A Distant Mirror and told you to come back the next week for more. I wrote a long and…

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Filed Under: Beatles, book club, books, History, insanity Tagged With: a distant mirror, barbara tuchman, black death

Jane Austen Is All Like, “That Dress? Bitch, Please!”

March 16, 2010 by WendyB

Jane Austen Is All Like, “That Dress? Bitch, Please!”

I went to the Morgan Library & Museum with a gorgeous and exceptionally nice friend* earlier this year. How nice is my friend? After I told her there was no need to apologize for a statement that didn’t offend me in the slightest, she apologized for the apology. She is the only person I know…

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Filed Under: authors, gorgeous friends, museums, things to do in nyc Tagged With: jane austen

Oh, the Shame!

April 22, 2009 by WendyB

Yesterday I neglected to celebrate the 500-year anniversary of the day that my dear friend, Henry VIII (also known on the internets as Henry teh 8), acceded to the English throne. Handsome! I doubt I would have remembered at all if gorgeous blogger Princess Poochie hadn’t sent me a story about one of Henry’s love…

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Filed Under: anne boleyn, books, Dogs, queens

Book Club: Introduction to A Distant Mirror

March 26, 2009 by WendyB

It’s become de rigueur for newspaper columnists, bloggers and people standing around the water cooler to bemoan the decline of civilization as evidenced by what one historian called “economic chaos, social unrest, high prices, profiteering, depraved morals, lack of production, industrial indolence, frenetic gaiety, wild expenditure, luxury, debauchery, social and religious hysteria, greed, avarice, maladministration,…

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Filed Under: book club, books, In the News Tagged With: a distant mirror

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