Hi, Crew.. The new show is up! This week on the Chaos Chronicles Podcast; The Last Oprah Show: Gave me a Touch of Nostalgia The Gracies: Say Yes to Sequined Pants Elizabeth Smart: My hero And… My To Do List Plus, if you suddenly found yourself speaking in a foreign accent, which one would [...]
Imagine my surprise when, mid-Gracies, Liz turned to me and gave me the “scoop”on the American Idol Finale. Liz revealed that she had been “following the AI Twitter feed all afternoon.” Really? Well, okay Liz does work for Fox and she may actually have a business reason for monitoring the Twitter feed, but still! Liz [...]
Thank goodness Christy Turlington will be there to distract other attendees from my slighty- too- casual shoes! As I mentioned on Chaos Chronicles Podcast 414, Liz and I are scheduled to hand out an award at the Gracies this Tuesday. The Gracies are awards given out for excellence in women’s media– TV, radio, digital– by [...]
Happy Weekend, Chaos Crew! I have a lightness of being today, as this is the first weekend in months where I have not had any professional obligations! Yeah. It’s a pleasure to let other family members take center stage this weekend. For more on the end of the Helen of Pasadena book tour and lessons [...]
Another VCR/Speaking gig situation at my house, so I missed the first 45 minutes, which I understand was the Idols pick songs and Haley’s dad playing the gee-tar. So please fill in the blanks. But I tuned in as Scotty was singing the Iovine pick…. so here goes…. Jennifer Lopez’s hair is a miss tonight. She [...]
From the Chaos Chronicles Archives of June 2004. What strikes me about this piece is how all-consuming the childcare situation is when your kids are little. And, as my sister Julie once said, ‘Just when you think you have it all in place, it all falls apart.” This week, my seventh grader was “sick” on [...]
Jerk. This morning I sat down with a fresh cup of coffee and the front page of the Los Angeles Times, as do every day, and there was the stunning headline about former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger having a child out of wedlock with a member of his household staff. In this day and age of [...]
Happy Friday, Chaos Crew. As I am writing this post, webmaster Sarah Sweeney is in Las Vegas for the graduation of her sister from Medical School. Mortar Boards Off for Dr. Beth Sweeney, a mom with two kids, 16 & 8, who decided that she really did want to be a doctor after all! And [...]
To read more about the author and the book, click here. The memoir Letters From a Distant Shore by Marie Lawson Fiala arrived at my door step in January. I have to admit, when I read the synopsis inside the front flap– tragedy strikes a 13 year-old boy and his mother writes about the grueling [...]
What a surprise this morning to wake to the announcement that Maria Shriver and her husband of 25 years Arnold Schwarzenegger were separating. It’s kind of like hearing the neighbors down the street were breaking up, the couple that always seemed to lead a stimulating, exciting life and still managed to raise grounded children. I [...]
