Who doesn’t love pretty women…they walk in and bring flowers and sunshine and brighten up every room. When younger, I thought Roy Orbison seemed vaguely uncool but now love his “Dreams”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1opB5j-y-9I

I love Google and also use Wikipedia, Dictionary and so many more data bases. I am in two Web 2.0 techy groups with combined membership of 5,000+…have been to the Google HQ—-amazing. Google is the universe brought to your laptop. A very wise Stanford University tech professor friend said that people who use the Internet at a sophisticated level see develop second nature abilities to see macro and micro patterns and connections that are inexplicable to others. Creating literally vast culture gulfs in people living right next door that otherwise seem the same. I really see this.

Great poster of you, Mary! If I were in NYC I’d love to see the entire presentation….but read you book years ago and it was terrific. How does it feel to be a legend?

I like Tiffany’s classic perfume for everything I associate with it and the bottle styling too. But lately am switching to organics, or at least products low on the cancer causing agents list and check everything I buy first on sites that rate cosmetics and other products.

Ciao Bella—-I love ‘Coco’ and ‘Chance’ too. Thanks for the vid….talk about production values.

My longtime favorite has been “Tiffany’s” classic fragrance. I like the clean style of the bottle, for one. But I as I buy new product when things run out I switch to organics. The environment and products are highly toxic and it just makes sense to eliminate as much as possible as it is easy to do. I have a couple database sites bookmarked that rate different products so I can make healthier choices: http://www.canceriq.org/causes.html

Re Vitamins-I believed Mary mentioned. I met with a top nutritionist who said that little vitamin value is derived from pill form but mostly flushed down the toilet. That powders and liquids are the most absorbable. I’ve switched around a bit, but superfood/green based powders like “Life Essence” master multiple and their “Ionic-Fizz Calcium Plus” make me feel stronger. There was a great piece in the NTY this AM on exercise. More than anything—exercise, good nutrition and top quality supplements are the fountain of youth and my mainstays before anything else. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/health/24brod.html?ei=5087&em=&en=035d…

I don’t understand the complaining about what the site is: 1) Many of the founders started with little money, instead of resenting them, learn from their examples of initiative and imagination. 2)The reality is that this is a commercial venture that needs a certain percentage of the user demographic to have money otherwise the site disappears. 3) They present a good mix of material and people. 4) There are other sites that can be an adjunct. There are many of us who love the world the Founders represent—people who go after life and who also appreciate those who make it.

Maizie—It is silly…and you look great! Love the pink sweater and big smile!

“You do something to me”. Doris Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASvsQpCfoZ0

JB, In “Something’s Gotta Give” Diane Keaton and Jack Nickelson’s characters are going to have sex for the first time. He stops, “Birth control?” She says, “Menopause.” He smiles, “Who’s the lucky guy?”

My tremendous long time friend, whose daughters are my age, was in her 70s when she went back for a Harvard reunion. She’d been a widow for 20+ years and had a beautiful home in Santa Barbara, lots of friends, multi-lingual, wonderful pianist, traveled often. Still. She ran into her sweet-sixteen beau that her mother had forced her to give up. He’d become a broadcaster. They began a hot affair. She turned into a 16 year old girl again. At the time she dragged me to see ‘The Bridges of Madison County.” It was sooo boring compared to her floor show. He died of a heart attack after two years. But if she hadn’t gone to that reunion that cherry-on-top-of-the hot-fudge-sundae time would have been lost. I’m not looking but in the last year have had three great boyfriends. One I met on a Bart platform-really a terrific man, for months we had a blast. He took off on a long planned voyage and I someone else when walked into Peet’s Coffee and we both did one of those instant recognition eye-locks. He’d won 18 gold, silver, and bronze Olympic Medals, started training at age 9, and trained Olympic medalist after his active sports career. Beautiful home, well traveled, attractive and fun. He asked me to marry him. Nice enough man just not for me. But it was exciting while it lasted and I got Olympian affirmation of on my fitness, which really appreciated. My thing is define what you want and know attracts that, then go where men are. I can’t avoid the last part because I live in a walking City…and I’m always at the beach, the track etc. Blanket statements are dumb, but for the most part I do think men after 50-60 area much more enlightened and mellow. After I relocate to France, and settled in, I’ll be more interested. I meet men everywhere. At Farmer’s Markets, book talks, sports groups, political campaigns, French club, World Affairs council, my Web 2.0 groups, through friends, and there’s a big ex-pat community there. The biggest myth is that there aren’t available men. What is true is that they just don’t deliver themselves to the door. My favorite film with this theme is Nancy Meyer’s “Somethings Gotta Give’ Diane Keaton and Jack Nickolson are fantastic, the best decorated beach house ever in the Hamptons. Scenes in Paris and NYC. Great sound track. Funny, perfect. Here’s the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSjI-xiH7j0

Beverly, You’re right, both parties today are way off. You’ve had a lot of fun and changes, too. We have a lot of pilots in the family, too. My first husband was killed flying his plane, my second was a naval pilot, both my brothers and nephew are private pilots, my brother-in-law was in charge of all training of United pilots, two male cousins were killed with their daughters coming back from a Tahoe ski trip in a mid-air crash. I nearly did us in once in a trip from SF (leaving Oakland where private planes land here)…my last time in a private plane…over Bay at 6,000 feet outgoing and incoming is supposed to be at 5,000 feet, didn’t spot til literally on top of us and missed plane tips by inches…could literally see whites of other pilot’s eyes and imagine the wing knocked off and spiral down. I’ll bet your husband had some good stories…they all do. Yes, my brother lives in Lake Oswego, moved there in 80s when property was still reasonable. The next couple of years will be very interestingl.

Great writing. Thought that Kotex was in the History Museum.

Entrepreneurial Green’s the thing—-in more ways than one.