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What Kelly Does & Doesn't Miss About Bethenny

Real Housewife of New York Kelly Bensimon is happy for Bethenny Frankel's success and spinoff show. No, really.

"I love it when people do well," she told me during our exclusive interview with her as she showed us around East Hampton. "The better that she does, the better the franchise of Housewives does."

Credit: E! Online (Cristina Gibson)

Cindy Barshop: Hampton's Magazine Clambake

Cindy Barshop attends Hamptons Magazine's Annual Clambake Celebration at The Montauk Yacht Club on July 17, 2011 in Montauk, New York.

Credit: Wire Image (E. Gologursky)

Russell Armstrong Releases Statement On Split

Photo Credit: Getty Images (Michael Buckner)

This past week, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Taylor Armstrong filed for divorce from her hubby of 6 years, Rusell Armstrong. Here's what he has to say about the split:

“We had a wonderful marriage and I don’t want you to get the impression that Taylor and I are bitter enemies — we’re not. We have a beautiful five-year-old daughter who we both love. We are very supportive of each other and love each other. I will support her as best an I can moving forward.”

He also hinted of the ever famous reality show curse -- “The pressure of being in the TV spotlight was pretty overwhelming,” he told RumorFix. “It took our manageable problems and made them worse.”

Kim Granatell To Bravo: Replace NJ Housewives

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Lately, there has been buzz that Bravo is going to replace all 5 of the current Real Housewives of New Jersey. But according to series regular Kim Granatell, it's not true -- but she wishes it were.

“They should absolutely do that! Good move!” she says. “Oh my God, absolutely, it’s so boring right now.”

On former star Danielle Staub, Kim says: “She’s crazy, she’s exciting, you never know what she’s going to do next. We are a dream team!”

Blog Intermission No. 14 – (entr’acte) – Woman in the Mirror

Several months ago I purchased a small book of poetry entitled “Now Might As Well Be Then” by Glenda Council Beall. The poems are lovely, well written and infused with much warmth – they touched my heart with their tenderness.




The back cover of my book says that Glenda Council Beall holds a degree in Education from the University of Georgia. Her essays, articles and poetry have been published in journals, newspapers and magazines. She is listed in the Poets and Writer’s Directory of American Poets and Writers. Glenda graciously authorized me to publish her poem, below, in my blog. You can read more on Glenda at her blog here (http://www.profilesandpedigrees.blogspot.com/.)

WOMAN IN THE MIRROR


Woman in the Mirror, Theo van Rysselburghe, Belgian 1862-1926


What happened to seventeen,
when I rode my mare
free as the river flows,
jumped over downed trees
splashed through narrow streams?




Marie in the Mirror, Peter Severing Kroyer, Norwegian-Danish, 1851-1909


What happened to twenty
when I danced in the moonlight,
my slender form dressed in a gown
white and shimmery as pearl?

La Toilette, L. C. Breslau, German-Swiss, 1856-1927

What happened to thirty
when I rode my Yamaha
down fire roads, mountain trails,
long black hair flying free?

Woman at the Mirror, Leon de Smet, Belgian, 1881-1966


What happened to those days
I ask the woman in the mirror.
Gone, she says, all gone, unless
you remember it.

–Glenda Council Beall

Reflections, Richard Emile Miller, American 1828-1943

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Note: Top picture is from my collection of vintage postcard. It is signed Alice Fidler, 1911.

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