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
- 1132 Views
- 9 Comments
Hitchens Endorses Obama--Who's Next?
OCTOBER 13, 2008 3:47PM EDT
- 654 Views
- 20 Comments
Luntz
JANUARY 28, 2009 6:16PM EST
- 542 Views
- 16 Comments
Yeats Once Again, Warning Us During This Change of Power
NOVEMBER 2, 2010 4:07PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 2050 Views
- 5 Comments
The Other Ground Zero
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008 12:57AM EDT
- 876 Views
- 17 Comments
Beautiful, Horrible Words on the Sacrifices of War
NOVEMBER 10, 2008 12:29PM EST
- 2415 Views
- 11 Comments
Two Weddings and a Funeral
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008 5:09PM EDT
- 2712 Views
- 10 Comments
The Seeing-Eye Man and the Blind Chihuahua
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008 9:34PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 1571 Views
- 27 Comments
Quarantined on Thanksgiving Weekend, 2006
NOVEMBER 23, 2008 4:09AM EST
- 1982 Views
- 12 Comments
Musings, Friday, around 3 am
OCTOBER 24, 2008 10:57AM EDT
- 623 Views
- 8 Comments
A Cutback Game to Help Keep You Occupied Till Tuesday
OCTOBER 28, 2008 4:19PM EDT
- 1421 Views
- 14 Comments
(Lea's) Quiz About My Love Life --Updated with ANSWERS
NOVEMBER 2, 2008 3:47PM EST
- 9789 Views
- 23 Comments
OS Turned My Ugly Duckling into a Swan
NOVEMBER 12, 2008 6:43PM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 5387 Views
- 24 Comments
OJ: You’re Finally Juiced
OCTOBER 4, 2008 10:33PM EDT
- 1256 Views
- 3 Comments
My Problems with August
AUGUST 12, 2008 4:27PM EDT
- 1386 Views
- 13 Comments
Ballsy Politics, and a Cautionary Tale
SEPTEMBER 4, 2008 1:01AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 2691 Views
- 14 Comments
Happy Singles Week!
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008 5:12PM EDT
- 634 Views
- 3 Comments
The Headless Neighbor
OCTOBER 30, 2008 12:06PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 672 Views
- 5 Comments
An Ugly Duckling, Back-To-School Memory
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008 8:10PM EDT
- 2001 Views
- 6 Comments
Remembering Racism as I Vote for Barack Obama
OCTOBER 20, 2008 1:19PM EDT
- 786 Views
- 10 Comments
A Ballot Buddy System (& an OS Connection)
DECEMBER 15, 2008 8:40AM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 758 Views
- 11 Comments
Eat Crow? Hell Yes, To Win
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008 8:49AM EDT
- 660 Views
- 4 Comments
Why Hasn't McCain Mentioned Wright?--update
OCTOBER 18, 2008 5:19PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 603 Views
- 9 Comments
Election Party Tips!
NOVEMBER 4, 2008 11:58AM EST
- 691 Views
- 16 Comments
Dylan's Great Anthem for a Time of Change
NOVEMBER 7, 2008 9:50AM EST
- 641 Views
- 4 Comments
Obama (Alas) You’re No Jack Kennedy at Debating
SEPTEMBER 28, 2008 7:04PM EDT
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