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Lea Lane
- Location
- Florida, USA
- Birthday
- August 26
- Title
- freelance writer/editor
- Bio
- “I’ve discovered the secret of life,” Kay Thompson, the eccentric entertainer and “Eloise” author, once said. “A lot of hard work, a lot of sense of humor, a lot of joy and a lot of tra-la-la!”
And that's been my life: As a travel writer for over 30 years, I've been around the block (more like around the world), and I write true stories about interesting people and places.
I've lived an unconventional life in conventional trappings. Been a corporate VP, worked with foster kids, acted in an Indie ("Nurse 1"), was on Jeopardy!.
I've been managing editor of a travel publication, written for the Times, and authored books. OS is my home, but I also blog on The Huffington Post, and I've contributed (mostly anonymously) to everything from encyclopedias to guidebooks.
Married young, divorced late; married late, widowed early, I dated lots in-between -- and survived a scary illness. After being happily, peacefully solo for many years, I'm now happily married again.
I founded and still edit www.sololady.com, a lifestyle Website for single women. I'm truly grateful for each precious day, each well-earned wrinkle, my family, my cat. Truth, laughter, friendship, late love. And this blog -- on this wonderful site!
MY RECENT POSTS
- A Sad Parallel: Reflecting on
the Suicide of Mary Kennedy
May 17, 2012 11:26PM - Wild Hair on Wild Hatch: A
Sassoon Moment
May 09, 2012 10:38PM - Two Dog Years
April 18, 2012 03:04PM - Bits & Pieces
March 28, 2012 02:56PM - Bandstand & The Headband
April 19, 2012 08:34AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “The tone is authentic
and the scene sad. But real.
So
real.”
9:38PM - “I remember that term
started a dozen years or so,
ago. Like
"baby
bump"…”
1:52PM - “How wonderful this is,
Deborah. I felt I was there:
the time,
the heat, the
viewp…”
1:43PM - “Audabon has nothing on
you. Lovely!!”
1:14PM - “Was so touched by this
video, and you put it into
even
greater context. As
anothe…”
1:13PM
Lea Lane's Links
- LINKS
- -MY SON'S MEMOIR, THE ZEROES, Now in Paperback
- -CLICK HERE TO AID FAMINE VICTIMS IN SOMOLIA
- -MY WEBSITE FOR SOLO WOMEN
- Favorite THINGS posts
- -A-Z Travel Tips
- -My Last Meals
- -Poem:This Golden Moment
- -Scars
- -Eating Blind
- -I'm a Mad Men Gal
- -The Anniversary I'll Never Forget
- -My Son Lost His Shirt and Found The Zeroes!
- -10 Books in a Blink
- -How Unrelated Symptoms Saved My Life
- -Yeats/Torture
- -Is Empathy a Pejorative?
- -Media Vultures on Death Watch
- -Has America Jumped the Shark?
- -Why I Stay Here
- -A White-Knuckle Landing
- -15 ways to Cut Back
- -Birth & Death: The Circle of Life
- -Fear of Flying & My Near Misses
- -Waiting for the Blood Test
- -When a Post Goes Viral
- -25 Things About Me
- -I Don't Celebrate Christmas
- -A Scary Dream
- -Racing at 150 mph!
- -Quarantined on Thanksgiving
- -Musings, 3 am
- -Remembering Racism
- -Problems with August
- -Losing a Dream, Losing a House
- Favorite FUN posts
- -Why My Cat Sits Joins Us at Dinner
- -Five Ways to Keep Mad Men
- -The Weirdest Meat I Ever Ate
- -"Independents" Day!
- -Real Lessons from The Real Housewives
- -Another Husband for a Minute
- -Joan Walsh, Where are You?
- -Monkey Business!
- -10 Unexpected Bonuses from Health Reform
- -About My Bidet
- -What Happened in Vegas?
- -No Sex & 9 Other Ways to Spring Ahead
- -To Suzy: It's Over
- -Valentine Poem for Sweetie
- -Why Bill Maher is Angry
- -iPuke? iPeek?
- -The Embarrassing Things in My Purse
- -Resolutions I Will NOT Make
- -Ode to My Tweezers
- -Ode to a Groundhog
- -My Reality TV Addiction
- -I Got Published in the New Yorker
- -Broccoli Obama
- -101 Words: He Never Calls, He Never Writes
- -I'm Not Who You Think I Am
- Favorite PEOPLE posts
- -The Reality of Ramona
- -Happy First Anniversary, Love
- -Messages from the Donald
- -The Bellman With Tourettes
- -Elvis Trivia
- -The Woman Who Slept with Rohairmoo
- -Chelsea Clinton & Moi
- -What Fay Vincent Told Me about Steinbrenner
- -Why I Didn't Love Daddy
- -A Play Connects to Famous People I've Known
- -Remembering Rue McClanahan
- -My Son Just Married Me!
- -Rick Died & I Was There for Him
- -For Nathan, Who Was only Two
- -Unexpected Lovers at Passover
- -Six Degrees of Separation
- -Porn King, Coke Prez, Murderer
- -My 2000 NYT Interview
- -My Man in Rio
- -You Caught Me, I'm in Love
- -Dumped By Answering Machine
- -My Best Friend Ended Her Life at 37
- -to lea at 17
- -Phyllis Schlafly Drooled on Me
- -Best in Show? Not This Lover
- -The Man Who Met Einstein
- -The Sahalis: Symbol of a Decade?
- -To My Sister, On a Big Birthday
- -My Birthday/Blogiversary
- -Mad Men: When My Bosses Were My Lovers
- -Julia (and Other Famed Chefs)
- -A Nice Jewish Girl Named for a Racetrack
- -A Conehead at the Fair: A Summer Tale
- -Anne Frank Would Have Been 80
- -Did I Really Just Tell You That?
- -Becoming Invisible
- -Elizabeth Edwards, Joan Rivers: Two Moms
- -My Surprising Talk With a Naked Actor
- -Why I'm Alone
- -Kate Winslet and Other (Drama) Queens
- -My Valentine Lover, 2006
- -My Life in 100 Words
- -One Snowy Dud, One Sexy Stud
- -My Gender Bender, Victor-Victoria Cruise
- -How I Wound Up in Claus Von Bulow's Apartment
- -To Odetta
- -My Late-in-Life Love
- -An Ugly Duckling OS Tale
- -To My Neighbor Hillary
- -OJ: You're Finally Juiced
- -On Being Single
- -Wisdom from a Hooker
- -The Seeing-Eye man
- -Two Weddings and a Funeral
- -Ted Kennedy's Brave Fight, and My Husband's
- -Dinner with Hill and Bill
- -The Abuser
- Favorite PLACES posts
- -Four-Part Antarctica Series
- -Keukenhof garden, Amsterdam
- -Belgian Spring
- -Mugged in Stockholm
- -A Life Along I-95
- -A Magic Invite to Firenze
- -On New Zealand's Milford sound
- -Honeymoon Blip on the Black Sea
- -Eat, Pray, Scratch in Bali
- -Americana: Mohonk Then & Now
- -Scary Journey on the Norwegian Ferry
- -The World's Most Colorful Neighborhood
- -The Magical Slot Canyon
- -The Other Ground Zero
- -India Life Lessons
- -Wild Dogs in Romania
- -Flutterbies in the Amazon, & Leo
- -Blue Lights in Barcelona
- -Crossing the Atlantic
- -Two Faraway Thanksgivings, & What I Learned
- -Sabrina's Walk of Remembrance in NYC
- -South Beach: Hot & Cool
- -Watching Greenland Melt
- -Carnaval in Colombia
- -Alone on a Cliff
- -An Irish Ramble
- -Dramatic Polar Photos
- -Argentina: Penguins, Penguins, Penguins!
- -New York's High Line
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Comments
Happy honeymoon!
Buon divertimento ed auguri per l'anniversario!
enjoy your honeymoon
Have a marvelous time!!!!
And Roy, I agree those unfinished works of marble by Michelangelo show his genius perhaps even more than his finished works.
R
Enjoy your trip. For the times Ive been in Italy Id have to say almost every inch of it presents itself as art. The only part that didnt is all the trash piling up in the streets of Naples when they "ran out of room at the dump."
Happy Blogging,
Heather
Have a great time. Lea!
Let us know what the Black Sea's like and give my regards to Constantinople!
Having spent a little time with Nick Clooney, George's dad, I can confirm the apple didn't fall far from the tree. In fact I broke him up with an old joke about the Blarney Stone.
Not by the way, my sister Marquita does a pretty fair imitation of Rosie Clooney -- does that score me any points?
Rosemary is George's grandmother. Don't be writing on your honeymoon...well, beyond a hello now and then, lol.
I absolutely concur with your first two choices. Of course, there's an awful lot of other great art to see in Italy. Such as the Basilica of St. Francis in Assissi. Almost hard to know where to look first.
Have a great trip! I'm envious as all begot.
rated.
You made me laugh, I was scrolling slowly.
I am late with this blog but you are wrong about Rosemary & George.
Rosemary was George's aunty.
George's father is just as gorgeous as his son.
Drool, drool.