eye of the beholder parlor

I love this. My mother just called me from under the dryer at the Beauty Parlor to tell me how much she loved my article on the Swan Ball in this month's Nfocus. Now Nfocus usually comes out on a Friday and Mom has an early hair appointment with her "beauty parlor person" (Mother is of a generation who do not use the words "stylist" or "salon") so she usually gets a fresh copy right as they are delivered and before they run out.

The Beauty Parlor always runs out of Nfocus.

This month it wasn't delivered until Saturday so she had to wait a whole week to pick up an issue from a replenishing delivery.

She "just loved it." But she's my mother so I would expect her to say so. I feel like it wasn't my best work, and in re-reading it, I fear it was a bit repetitive. But Mom said I got high billing so the editors must have liked it too. This was the hardest Swan Ball piece to write—this year's Ball was lovely but largely uninteresting to me. The Late Party is usually good for some goss', but the later Late Party this year was more messy than I could politely scribe.

Now that the July/Swan Ball issue is out, I feel I can post my column from the June/Iroquois Steeplechase issue now. It's up with the other writing samples on my personal Web site.

Maybe it's all the hot air, but I get a warm feeling thinking about all those society ladies under the driers at the Beauty Parlor reading my rambles.