May 7, 2024 | A Day In My Life
My father always said there were three rules to making wine during Prohibition: keep it simple, don’t label the bottles, and don’t drink the product. I follow two of them. He didn’t follow any. My name is Letty Hart and I take care of my family’s winery here in Los...
May 6, 2024 | A Day In My Life
You’d think that my days living full time on a private residential cruise ship would be spent sipping cocktails poolside with a good book and my sister Jane, but there’s so much more to it than that. There are the extravagantly themed parties, exploring exotic ports...
May 3, 2024 | A Day In My Life
The link popped up right after I finished helping a client decide on the embossing for her wedding invites. I waited until I finished her order before I checked the text from my mother. She’d already bombarded me with articles about any shooting, break-in, or assault...
May 2, 2024 | A Day In My Life
June 1900 “Are you still going to ride in the park when you’re a Duchess?” “The Duke’s too smart to try and stop me!” I assured my friend Hetty MacNaughten, as we hopped off our velocipedes after a summer-morning spin in Washington Square Park. We both have a great...
May 1, 2024 | A Day In My Life
Here I am, back on Long Island where I swore I’d never return, driving out to Montauk. I left three years ago to get away from my bossy aunts who raised me and tried to micromanage every aspect of my life. So after I graduated from college, I moved to Upstate...
Apr 30, 2024 | A Day In My Life
A typical day in my life begins with me waking up in Venice Beach, California three minutes before my alarm goes off wondering why it’s so dark. Is it three A.M.? Do I have something I have to do today? Can I go back to sleep? Oh, it’s 6:57. But why is it so dark? Is...
