Lea Lane
- Location
- Florida, USA
- Birthday
- August 26
- Title
- author, Travel Tales I Couldn't Put in the Guidebooks, available at Amazon.com and on Kindle
- 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. (Check out my travel site, Travels With Lea.)
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
- National Penguins Day! Another
Look at Adorable Friends
April 26, 2013 01:28PM - Al Neuharth, My Mentor
April 23, 2013 03:53PM - My Grandmother/Granddaughter,
127 Years Apart
March 08, 2013 02:33PM - Would You Cruise on Carnival?
February 15, 2013 03:44PM - The Inner Light of Antelope
Canyon (photos)
February 05, 2013 09:53AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “This is a serious piece
of work. Maybe you're at the
end of
the beginning, but
I…”
5:50PM - “Well Sally, he's may be
more like Barney than Dylan,
but
still -- another
wonderf…”
3:46PM - “I did this from an early
age, with the hurts of my
parents. I
continue to
ignore…”
3:39PM - “Nelle, I'm not here all
that much, but you are always
a
reason to come back.
You…”
May 21, 2013 02:38PM - “Good luck, Jeff. Go for
it and prosper!”
May 21, 2013 10:15AM
Lea Lane's Links
- MY LINKS
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- -Keukenhof garden, Amsterdam
- -Belgian Spring
- -Mugged in Stockholm
- -Honeymoon Blip on the Black Sea
- -Eat, Pray, Scratch in Bali
- -Americana: Mohonk Then & Now
- -The World's Most Colorful Neighborhood
- -The Magical Slot Canyon
- -India Life Lessons
- -Flutterbies in the Amazon, & Leo
- -Blue Lights in Barcelona
- -Sabrina's Walk of Remembrance in NYC
- -Alone on a Cliff
- -An Irish Ramble
- -Dramatic Polar Photos
- -Argentina: Penguins, Penguins, Penguins!
- -New York's High Line
- MY LINKS
- author, Travel Tales I Couldn't Put in the Guidebooks
- MY LINKS
- $4.95/mo Web Hosting
- -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
- -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
- -I'm Not Who You Think I Am
- MY LINKS
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- -My Last Meals
- -Poem:This Golden Moment
- -Scars
- -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
- -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
- MY LINKS
- Shopping Amazon.com
- -The Reality of Ramona
- -Happy First Anniversary, Love
- -Messages from the Donald
- -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
- -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
- -Ted Kennedy's Brave Fight, and My Husband's
- -Dinner with Hill and Bill
- -The Abuser
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