I’m so grateful you said it first!!! As I’m an outsider it was not my wish to rain on the Michelle’s fashion parade. Yesterday’s outfit was yucky!!! Wrong colour/wrong cut & fit. Clothes for public functions should have some weights in the hemline to avoid the flying away effect that breaks the line. On the other hand, I loved the ball gown, but then again, should be better fitted around the waist. However, they make such a mesmerizing couple, so blatantly in love, so well matched, that who cares, right??? Re Mr Obama’s speech. It was perfect. Simple, meaningful, clear & highly inspirational. A classic. Will be read as such for many years.

Atonement, every single day of the rest of his life.

Asi sea, amiga mia!!!

Dear Joni, I’m so envious, green with envy but so happy for you US citizens. You, who can achieve miracles- You, who can reinvent yourself after years of hatred & strife. You, who can show the world the power of freedom. Today I wished I were born in the USA, to feel the hope & the pride. Dear friends, enjoy being part of the miracle!!!

You’ve come a long way, Mr President. Keep going!!!

Oh yes!!! She did look marvelous in that yellow ensemble, so classy. Watch out Carla Bruni!!!

Ditto!! Congrats!!! Welcome to a brave new world of seeing!!!

Oh dears, just to think you live in the USA & you are talking like this!!! Listen, there are lots of things your eye doctors can do for you!!! Listen, I’ve been astigmatic & short-sighted (myopic) fm the day I was born,wore contact lenses for about 40 years+I had glaucoma for the last 10 years and about one year ago, I underwent some sort of complicated eye surgery (don’t ask, I have no idea what happened in that operating room) & now, I SEE!! no contacts/no glasses, nothing. I’m FREE!!!! Please, check this out with your doctors, it is so liberating I cannot explain!!!!!!

Wished she can only read this. She’d have a good laugh!!!

Good Heavens!! Are we loosing our marbles down here or what ???? I’m quite sure I answered this question some months ago??? Is it deja vu or plain Alzheimer, pls adv!!!! Anyway, I’ll do it again. Here is my choice of FL: Abigail Adams/Eleanor Roosevelt/Jackie Kennedy & now, I want to add Michelle Obama just because I think she is a great woman, I get her vibe: strong/clever &sexy. My best wishes to her & to the USA, you are the hope of all the Americas. God bless America!!! (all of us….)

I wonder, who is this Jim person??? Another venomous male crashing in?? Oh dear, why don’t you keep your little male bruised ego to yourself, we have more entertaining things to do without interference, capito??? or we’ll break your knees (Sopranos dixit!!!!) Re Ms Gurley Brown, she is just great. I never read Cosmopolitan but sometime in the 70’s I bought her book “Having it all” & it was a romp, from beginning to end. I used many of her tricks” (quite successful, by the way….) A strong woman with a sense of humour (and very successful to boot + she married the man of her dreams)is there anything else to add??? Thank you Ms Gurley !!!

I’d say: carpe diem & never stop learning as fp so wisely wrote, if you add “be kind & generous” to the mix, well, that’s almost perfection, no es cierto???

You are so right!!! Why is it that very few people understand that what Mr Gramm did was the kiss of death ot the american economy as we knew it. Kudos for you S, this is something that should not be forgotten. Ever.

Hi S, I have been reading her story at The daily Beast with a sort of morbid incredulity. I just don’t get it how a grown up woman & a very articulate & savvy one, put all her eggs-so to speak-in a single basket. It’s the sort of financial error that defies description. It seems she is a gutsy lady & will forge ahead & I sincerely wish her luck. I’ve been reading all your posts re the financial crisis & I agree with many of you that there have been fewer cases than expected but the trend will increase. I watch all this fm a different perspective, I’ve lived in a country where crisis are a staple of our daily lives. I can not recall a single period of my life when things were”normal”, but somehow we survived. I was speaking with my Dad, who is in his nineties but with a brilliant mind, trying to remember how our family reacted when awful things like hyperinflation or devaluation hit us on the head. And to tell you the truth, we don’t know. I guess we lived our lives always on “survival” mode, always anticipating -whenever possible- the next blow, like boxers do. But something weird has happened in Argentina after the monumental default of 2001, suicides have been on the rise -specially in the younger generation.- we are record consumers of antidepressant/ sleeping pills & the like , panic attacks are suffered by actors/stock brokers or your maid & alcoholism & drug addiction have reached an all-time high. Needless to explain that shrinks are getting richer by the second. I can only say that in situations like this one, and know I mean the world crisis we should understand that this is only the beginning, it is going to be much worse in the following years, so ladies, do keep healthy in mind & body, keep an eagle eye on your money & pray…..

Dear D, Slim we might be but tiny???? Don’t you ever forget that a good “derriere” is a fetish of the argentine male, thus we do suffer the toilet paper scarcity even more. …..