To Meghan, With Love

Published March 4, 2025 bling blog , crafty , tv! 3 Comments
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I love Meghan’s new show, and I don’t care who hears it. I think it’s beautiful, heartfelt, (mostly) sincere, warm, inviting, and I learned how to make a balloon arch, a ladybug crostini, and a LOT about flower arrangement (that emphasis is meant as a positive because I thought I was ok at arranging).

To address some criticism about transparency or authenticity: I know that it’s not filmed at her home, but supposedly near her home (though I think that’s fairly obvious from some comments she makes); I know that not all the guests are her friends from before the show, but she and those that aren’t make that clear.

But the home she uses is beautiful and she clearly feels at home in it. She has a lovely ease her guests—both friends and new-friends alike—and it certainly seems that both the crew and cameras like her.

It all feels natural, relatively normal and as accessible as it could ever be for me—entering a Montecito kitchen of a UK royal.

There’s been a lot of hate. But I don’t get it. Haters, what did you want the show to be? You didn’t want it to exist? Ok, well, deal with it.

And those of you criticizing it for its substance as “just another” whatever? How can that even be? What is another MONTECITO LIFESTYLE SHOW OF A UK ROYAL?! When did you see that show when I wasn’t watching?

Also, who among you knew that the balloon blowy-uppy thing that she showed for the garden party existed? For that alone, she deserves your praise. Or at least a balloon arch in her name.

KAJ is a national treasure

Published January 10, 2025 bling blog Leave a Comment

If you don’t subscribe to Kareem Abdul-Jabbbar’s Substack, I encourage you to do so. I’ll be first in line to say that I don’t understand what Substack is, but I’ll also try to be at the very front of the line (I imagine a lot of competition) to crown Kareem the national treasure that he is.

Thursday swap out

Published June 6, 2024 bling blog Leave a Comment
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Aaron is fond of saying about Madison, “Someday, they will be done building this town.” Of course, that’s not how towns work. It’s also not how our home works!

This was our main bathroom before. Little nook with black and white wallpaper, art prints, a deer from White Faux Taxidermy, and a glass shelf from Pottery Barn (similar to this one).

But the limits of the shelf are obvious: it’s one shelf and it gets covered in whatever particular brand of bathroom dust floats around in our bath. I also didn’t love how it appears to float. I can see the benefits of that in some spaces, but here it was making it look to me like we had a bunch of junk crammed together and hovering in mid air. It was driving me un peu batty, but mostly ignored it. Until the proverbial bee entered my bonnet last week, and I decided to take action! I’ve coveted this wall cabinet from Anthropologie for some time and on a whim (and Aaron’s approval), I snatched it up last week.

And today, Aaron got out his semi-reliable stud finder, his favorite anchors, the drill, and a pencil. And voila!

A beautiful, useful, very pretty, well-fitting wall cabinet is ours! Thoughts?

Yes, I agree. Kleenex boxes never make a room look anything but . . . ew. But everyone who knows me understands that my nose is nothing but a liability, so removing them from these pics would have just felt dishonest. Ta da!

It works

Published June 2, 2024 bling blog , law stuff 1 Comment
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Sometimes, the system we have works. I’m so amazed and awed by, and proud of, the New York DA’s office for having the courage to file the charges against Trump, to prosecute him thoroughly and thoughtfully and ethically and fairly, and to secure the convictions it did.

As many have said, other jurisdictions declined to pursue similar charges against Trump. And that’s their prerogative. And there’s so much that goes into the calculation of whether the prosecution of a man like Trump on charges like these is “worth” it.

Will prosecuting him be perceived by the public as persecuting him? Is it possible to convict him? If he’s not convicted, what will that do to his ego and brand and followers and the country?

I don’t pretend to know what went into the DA’s office’s decision to bring these charges and to bring a cogent, smart, efficient prosecution against Trump, but I believe it was the right—meaning, morally and ethically—thing to do. And I’m so grateful to Attorney Bragg and his staff. They make me proud to be a lawyer.

Been awhile

Published April 19, 2024 bling blog 1 Comment

Hey there. This thing on?

I’d been wanting to write, and then I watched something in which someone said blogs weren’t a thing anymore, which pushed me to come back. Hearing someone say, “Blogs aren’t really a thing now”—or whatever she said—weirdly made me feel better about wanting to return here. And what is here? Is it an amplified diary? A cry for attention? An attempt to mark that I exist? Just a banal way to connect? A super lame overshare? I don’t know. But I know that it sometimes makes me feel connected to others I love, and I like that I get to use it to use my voice. And that’s enough.

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