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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

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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DECEMBER 31, 2011 9:47AM

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Throughout 2011 we've shared our deepest feelings and experiences: happy times, and many sad and even tragic ones.

Especially for those who've had a tough year, and for us all:

Here’s to an uncomplicated 2012

Of simple pleasures.

One of love,

Found new, or intensified anew.

A year of good health for you and yours, and

Of prosperity.

A year of peace,

A year when

We come to our senses as a country.

A year of truth and caring, on course

For better times.

May warm winds waft you forward,

Words flow freely; laughter too.

May joy kiss your cheeks and a Muse lift your fingers.

May friends old and new support and sustain you.

Here’s to a year when losses are few,

Rewards are many, and pain recedes:

An uncomplicated,

Better-than-expected,

Gigglingly delightful new year.

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Happy, healthy, 2012, to all OSers!

Lea Lane

December 31, 2011 09:50 AM

I'll raise a glass to that (in a few hours, anyhow) - Skol!
R

Barb Allee

December 31, 2011 09:54 AM

Nice fireworks. All the best to you and yours, Lea.

Kathy Riordan

December 31, 2011 09:56 AM

Wishing you and your family a year of peace, health and happiness, Lea. ~r

Joan H.

December 31, 2011 09:58 AM

Thanks

Patrick Frank

December 31, 2011 10:01 AM

To you, too...

Patrick Frank

December 31, 2011 10:01 AM

To you, too...

Patrick Frank

December 31, 2011 10:02 AM

Simply lovely, Lea. Just like you.

Belinda T.

December 31, 2011 10:31 AM

And a happy 2012 to you Lea.

Abrawang

December 31, 2011 10:41 AM

Thank you, Lea...tonight I will re-read this with a glass of red wine firmly in hand (champagne's not my favorite adult beverage).

Health and happiness to you and your husband this year.

Smithery

December 31, 2011 10:42 AM

Thank you
Excellent photo
All the best to you and your loved ones in 2012
~R~

M. C. S.

December 31, 2011 10:50 AM

OH your so good and today your simply Great...

Algis Kemezys

December 31, 2011 11:05 AM

Here’s to an uncomplicated 2012
High five to that Lea.. Nothing but good health!
HUGGGGGGGGG

Linda Seccaspina

December 31, 2011 11:33 AM

Happy New Year, Lea. Thanks for your wishes here.

Divorce Bard

December 31, 2011 11:33 AM

Warm and sparkly and kind. Thank you.

Mary Stanik

December 31, 2011 11:36 AM

Thanks for this, and your lovely writing. May it all continue.

Helvetica Stone

December 31, 2011 11:40 AM

Thanks, Lea. And great wishes for 2012 back atcha!

Frank Apisa

December 31, 2011 11:45 AM

Kinda wonderful in each line. Like words of hope and love and laughter cannot get prettier. Thank you.

Mango Sherbert

December 31, 2011 11:50 AM

Cheers, Lea!

Maria Stuart

December 31, 2011 11:56 AM

"a Muse lift your fingers." Great line! I love this. Thanks for sharing it, and may all these pleasing things come to you as well. Happy 2012. Be well.

Maureen J Andrade

December 31, 2011 12:05 PM

All you said and "with a little sex in it." [hat tip to Preston Sturges]

Happy New Year, Lea. Many blessings to you.

Stim

December 31, 2011 12:09 PM

Lea, thanks for all the light you brought into my life, in 2011 and in years past. You are a star in my firmament. xo

bbd

December 31, 2011 12:38 PM

Very poetic Lea. Thank you and of course I wish the same for you!

Kellylark

December 31, 2011 12:43 PM

A wonderful wish. Happy New Year.

just phyllis for now

December 31, 2011 12:47 PM

Now that I followed the link from FB I will have to go back and give a like on your page.

I do hope for all to have a wonderful new year. It is looking well so far for me , my family and my many strange friends who bring joy and humor into our lives.

Folkmuse

December 31, 2011 12:51 PM

Lea Lane likewise.

OS hookup Eiffel Tower April 1st 2012?

J.P. Hart

December 31, 2011 12:57 PM

beautiful. and right back at ya :)

lemonpulp

December 31, 2011 02:00 PM

A wonderful glimpse into what we all should have! Very best wishes to you and yours, Lea. May 2012 see us all stronger, wiser, and with peaceful, loving hearts.

mypsyche

December 31, 2011 02:29 PM

And best wishes to you as well. And those you love. And those who love you.

Warmest regards. / r

Frank

toritto

December 31, 2011 03:19 PM

Thank you, Happy New Year~!

tai

December 31, 2011 03:20 PM

You got me giggling already, Lea.

Matt Paust

December 31, 2011 03:55 PM

"Uncomplicated" I like that.
Cheers to you Lea. Happy New Year . Hope you are healing rapidly.

trilogy

December 31, 2011 04:07 PM

Let the giggles begin!!! Happy, happy, happeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

Cathy GF

December 31, 2011 06:00 PM

The fireworks are "gigglingly delightful"! Same to you!

The Good Daughter

December 31, 2011 06:52 PM

Giggle your way through 2012--I can get behind that! =o)

Happy New Year, Lea et al.

rated with a couple of bottle rockets.

Shiral

December 31, 2011 09:16 PM

and may i send every one of those lovely wishes back toward florida for you, lea. i think this year will be better for many of us, most of us, who didn't have such a terrific 2011. i love that big smile on your pretty face, friend. happy 2012.

femme forte aka candace

January 01, 2012 01:42 AM

This is just perfect Lea!
Thank you and all the best in the year ahead!

ladyfarmerjed

January 01, 2012 07:36 AM

I second that. May we all have such a good year...

Myriad

January 01, 2012 09:35 AM

Raising a glass of clean filtered water to you and yours! Good health to all.

C Berg

January 01, 2012 12:03 PM

Oh, I just love this, and you. Happy New Year, Lea, and L'Chaim for 2012!

Sally Swift

January 01, 2012 02:36 PM

How lovely, Lea, these are excellent best wishes for us all!
I wish all of this for you and yours as well ~ cheers to a delightful 2012!

Just Thinking...

January 01, 2012 02:46 PM

Oh, how lovely! Thanks for your wishes, and sending all this back to you a thousand times over! Happy 2012!

Alysa Salzberg

January 02, 2012 01:48 PM

Thank you and the best to you and yours in 2012.

Chrissie Pissie

January 03, 2012 11:44 AM

Dear Lea, after all you've been through in '11 this was especially generous. I do believe 2012 is going to have huge breakthroughs for consciousness for all who care for that--which is apparenly almost or everyone here. R