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
- Editor’s Pick
- 104 Comments
"The Worst May Be Behind Us." 15 + Ways to Cut Back Anyway
AUGUST 7, 2009 1:07PM EDT
- 76 Comments
An Open Salon Thread: Congratulations to Barack Obama
JANUARY 20, 2009 8:30AM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 86 Comments
My Man in Rio, or, Charmed by a City and a Guy Named H
OCTOBER 5, 2009 8:47AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 45 Comments
Oscar Fun: My Brush w Kate Winslet and Other (Drama) Queens
FEBRUARY 20, 2009 11:39AM EST
- 60 Comments
A Conehead at the Fair: A Summer Tale
JUNE 23, 2009 10:05AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 76 Comments
(My March of the) Penguins, Penguins, Penguins!
MAY 29, 2009 9:51AM EDT
- 66 Comments
Two Weddings & a Funeral, And Why You Should Dance!
OCTOBER 20, 2009 12:11PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 51 Comments
Shanghaied Romance (Pitt 3, w travel, photos, nudity)
MARCH 9, 2009 9:23AM EDT
- 65 Comments
Forget Vegas. I Had a Nice Weekend Too! (UPDATE)
JULY 20, 2009 5:31PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 106 Comments
The Kind Bellman Who Yelled "F..k You Turd Face!"
NOVEMBER 4, 2010 9:30AM EDT
- 23 Comments
OS Turned My Ugly Duckling into a Swan
NOVEMBER 12, 2008 6:43PM EST
- 106 Comments
My Valentine Lover, 2006
FEBRUARY 13, 2009 10:43PM EST
- 42 Comments
Storms, S. America, Eclipse, Near-Death, Romance (!)
JANUARY 25, 2009 2:45PM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 107 Comments
25 Resolutions I ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT Make
DECEMBER 30, 2009 10:47AM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 84 Comments
The Media Vultures on Death Watch
MARCH 18, 2009 11:00AM EDT
- Lexus
- 96 Comments
Watching Greenland Melt
FEBRUARY 16, 2009 8:54AM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 72 Comments
Dumped by Answering Machine on Oscar Night, 1996
MARCH 5, 2010 1:55PM EST
- 86 Comments
The Embarrassing Things You'd Find in My Really Big Purse
JANUARY 22, 2010 12:40PM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 75 Comments
Phyllis Schlafly Drooled on Me, and Other CPAC Memories
FEBRUARY 19, 2010 7:57AM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 68 Comments
New York's City's Secret High: The High Line
JULY 27, 2009 12:06AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 76 Comments
The Amateur Analysis of My "Wet" Dream
NOVEMBER 10, 2009 8:59AM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 112 Comments
My Best Friend Ended Her Life at 37
MARCH 2, 2010 7:28AM EST
- 160 Comments
Why I'm Alone
MARCH 23, 2009 3:44PM EDT
- 58 Comments
Two Fierce Moms in the Media: Elizabeth Edwards, Joan Rivers
MAY 8, 2009 8:47AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 108 Comments
Anne Frank Would Have Been 80 - UPDATE, Hate Shooting
JUNE 9, 2009 12:51AM EDT
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