Social Diary
Social Diary• August 19, 2019

Changing subjects and changing times

Warm and mainly sunny weekend; more news grinding out on Epstein; plus all the solicitation coming by email for politicians asking for donations; plus a Hollywood memory when campaigning began on Election ...

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Dog Day Afternoon

Social Diary• August 16, 2019.
Dog Day Good Afternoon out in Southampton where they’re getting the attention they need from animal lovers with big hearts... READ MORE
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Life in a Fishbowl

Social Diary• August 13, 2019.
Epstein’s still the topic for some but Prince Harry and the Royals are the topic for another; even the Queen and the late Queen Mother. ... READ MORE
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Wowing and wooing the crowd

Social Diary• August 12, 2019.
Beautiful weekend in New York; Jeffrey Epstein mystery continues, plus the Hamptons Dance Project wowed audiences at Guild Hall in East Hampton; the Budapest Festival Orchestra came to the David Geffen Hall; the Nantucket Summer Antiques Show held its preview party, and the Nantucket Historical Association held its Night at the Museum at the Whalin... READ MORE
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The End of It All; the Life of Jeffrey Epstein

Social Diary• August 10, 2019.
Considering the Life of Jeffrey Epstein on hearing the news of his demise early this morning in New York... READ MORE
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New York, Southampton, Nantucket, and Newport

Social Diary• August 5, 2019.
Quiet weekend in New York; Southampton, Nantucket, Newport are busy-busy... READ MORE
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Fortune’s Children

Social Diary• August 2, 2019.
Some fair summer weather with sunshine, a very good, can’t-stop-reading book about a famous family and a more famous patriarch to steal my time; plus Blair Sabol remembers Kenneth Jay Lane’s savvy artistry... READ MORE
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A birthday weekend in Nantucket, Part 2

Social Diary• July 31, 2019.
Re-visting a birthday weekend in Nantucket, Part 2, back by popular demand... READ MORE
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A birthday weekend in Nantucket, Part 1

Social Diary• July 30, 2019.
Last year around this same time both JH and I were invited to Nantucket for the long weekend. Mother Nature was really in season to the point of reverie — it was so beautiful we thought it worth a re-run. Here's Part I ..... READ MORE
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The guest list that drew the guests

Social Diary• July 28, 2019.
A quiet summer weekend in the city, and considering Jeffrey Epstein’s phone book and what a party he made from it... READ MORE
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Oh! We’re having a heatwave …

Social Diary• July 23, 2019.
The subject just about everywhere for the past four or five days has been the weather and the heat its graced us with. Plus some photos from JH who’s in Lake Como with George and Amal... READ MORE
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A reminder of the values of that life

Social Diary• July 18, 2019.
A very hot day, tempered by the torrential rains from “Barry”, and a laugh-out-loud, surprisingly moving memoir I just finished called “Oy Vey; I’m Going to Church"... READ MORE
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The POWER of community

Social Diary• July 15, 2019.
This past Saturday night’s partial blackout in Manhattan was a brief interruption, a panic wrapped in mystery, reminding me of a major blackout that occurred in the entire Northeast back in the autumn of 1965. Meanwhile JH, in Scotland on a golfing expedition, sends some scenes of the trip where it was beautiful and comfortably cooler this past w... READ MORE

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