In case you missed it, here’s what was on the blog this week. Monday: My best dressed at the VH1 Hip Hop Honors was Faith Evans. Wednesday: My new ruby ring for ANZA Gems. Thursday: Bastille Day memories … and a tragedy in Nice. Friday: Eryn’s back at it again with all the fancy rings….
Wendy Brandes Jewelry in the Wild
It’s fun to take photos of jewelry out and about, or “in the wild,” as I like to think of it. Eryn Patton is great at modeling fistfuls of rings, so she took the rings off my fingers over drinks this week and struck some poses. (Damn, Eryn, back at it again with all the…
Throwback Thursday: Bastille Day in Paris
I miss being in Paris for Bastille Day! There was a three-year stretch when we were there. MrB and I were hoping to go revive our tradition and go this year, but we didn’t get ourselves organized in time. I’m looking at some throwback outfit/style photos instead. I keep forgetting that my hair was this…
Jewel of the Month: Ruby Dangle Ring for ANZA Gems
July’s birthstone is the ruby, and, boy, do I have the ruby ring for you! It’s good-looking, has a good story and promotes a good cause. First I’ll give you the good story and explain the good cause. Monica Stephenson, the tall drink of water who writes the jewelry blog iDazzle, founded ANZA Gems in…
My Best Dressed at the 2016 Hip Hop Honors Is …
VH1 had an annual Hip Hop Honors telecast from 2004 to 2010 to recognize “the luminaries who broke new ground and propelled the [hip hop] genre into the cultural phenomenon it has become.” I’m not sure why the network stopped doing it, or why the show was resurrected tonight, but I approve because the theme…
The Week in Review
I didn’t get to write a few posts I planned to do this weekend because of a household accident on Friday. Here’s how I described it in successive tweets on Twitter. We have no cable, Internet or home phone because of something the cat did. ? The cat that disconnected the cable felt the hostility…
Recommended Reading/Listening
I can’t do the lighthearted Throwback Thursday post I was planning in light of this week’s rash of killings of black men by police officers. Instead, I’ll share these links. I may add more later. Deadly Force, in Black and White (A ProPublica analysis of killings by police shows outsize risk for young black males). …
Listen to My Career-Change Podcast
Thanks to the gorgeous Felicia Spahr for interviewing me for her site Instantly Irresistible. As the website says, Felicia specializes in “leadership coaching for ambitious, professional women.” Felicia wanted to talk to women who had made a big career change. As she wrote about her own experience: “A couple of years ago, I felt ‘stuck’…
What Wendy Wore in the Rain: Paul Simon, July 4th
I swear that there was one New York summer in the 1990s during which we had rain every weekend. Something like 13 weekends in a row. (I’m trying to Poodle this, but I don’t want to spend all day on mid-1990s weather research, so just go with me here.) Even so, I don’t think I…
The Week in Review (and Don’t Forget My Sale)
In case you missed it, here’s what was on the blog this week. Monday: RIP, Bill Cunningham. Tuesday: Thinking of the people of Istanbul. Wednesday: Game of Thrones engagement rings. Thursday: Ossie Clark and Purrkoy the kitten go together well. Don’t forget to check out my Independence sale. It only runs through tomorrow! CLICK HERE…