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February Contest Image
Try your hand at coming up with a winning caption!
Don’t Fence Me In
It was one year ago – while I was in New York exhibiting at the National Stationery Show – that my soul mate Pepper went blind.
After he had cataract surgery in June I had to keep him caged or on a leash (absolutely no running or jumping), away from dust (we live in New Mexico: Land of Enchantment… and Dust), and out of the sun for THREE MONTHS! (i.e. the entire summer)
So every evening after the sun went down I would take him for a short walk and this is what I would sing:
Three months of leash-walks and massacring this song (no, I don’t sing as well as Willie) did amount to some good: Pepper can see! And this Shopper:
Hasta luego!
Facebook fan Dina L. Salas recently asked whether we had any magnets featuring Latinas. Tristemente, no!
This design was once a magnet and a postcard:
Unfortunately, this was yet another case of me thinking I was totally hilarious… and nobody else agreeing. (Does anyone out there think this is at all funny?)
I suspect the model is no more Latina than I am… but I’m pretty sure that’s what the photographer was going for.
Dina suggested the caption “it is because of our Mothers that Latin women need therapy!” Hey – I’m Irish-Scottish, and it’s because of my mother that I need therapy. (Just kidding, Mom!)
I have an extremely hard time finding images from the 40s and 50s of women who don’t look exactly like June Cleaver. I did finally find a few African-American women, such as…
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 you mess with the kitty, you feel the claws |
and thanks to gal Friday Amber Doe we have more coming in June (stay tuned!).
But so far no Latinas! I am looking, Dina, and I’m sure I will find some eventually. ¡Ojala!
(Ps. I apologize if I just massacred the language by trying to use my favorite word from high school Spanish!)
Enter Turquoise
In 2006 a friend of a friend put me in touch with Turquoise Taylor Grant. I had been writing captions for ladies from the 40s and 50s for twenty-one years, and I thought a little help might be in order. Enter Turquoise. She sent me such hilariously quirky and spot-on captions that I started wondering “who is this crazy woman?!?” I hypothesized, based on the name “Turquoise”, that she might be an aging hippie. My daughter said no, Turquoise was an Amazon high-priestess. I finally decided to stop guessing and ask Turquoise to send me a picture and tell me a little about herself. Definitely not an aging hippie:
This is what Turquoise had to say about her work:
I write satire, and humor, and am shopping around a book of essays (still in the “rejection” stage–very rewarding). I have a couple of short pieces up on happywomanmagazine.com—The Beauty of Balance is one. I’ve also written a lot of corporate copy, for example, about the fascinating world of automatic check cashing machines.
Turquoise lives on a boat outside Los Angeles and actually sails in regattas. Interesting woman.
Show Time!
Ginger LaForme is brilliant. I’m thinking about Ginger (well, Ginny actually, but she agreed years ago to let me call her Ginger) as we kick off the National Stationery Show today in the brand new booth she designed and built for me.
The First Picnic
… of 2010, that is. Inaccurate forecasts of a lovely weekend (thanks, Weather Channel) inspired us to invite a group of friends for a picnic last Saturday, the first of the year at beautiful Abiquiu Lake…
A fifteen minute scramble through the boulders…
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… and down the side of the mesa brought us to this lovely picnic spot… |
