Charlene Ross's Blog, page 3
February 10, 2020
Oscar's Fashion Eye is 2020
It’s Laurel & Lexington here! Usually Charlene writes a funny, snarky, poignant blog post for the Oscar’s ever-anticipated Red Carpet, but this year, her working/traveling/jet-setting self is allowing her friends & daughter to guest-write her post. She may live to regret it, like Kristen Wiig is regretting her dress choice, but hey – life is […]
January 6, 2020
My Snarky 2020 Golden Globe Review
Oh yes, it’s that time of year again. The Golden Globe Awards! And this time I was actually ready! For whatever reason the last few years the awards have caught me off-guard or I’ve been out of town while they were, but last night I was ready. Also it seems that the last few years […]
January 3, 2020
Looking Back on 2019
My husband would like you to know that the new decade does not start until next year – 2021, so everybody needs to calm down. (Because, you know, year one started at one, not at zero, so decades start with ones and end with zeros, not start with zeros and end with nines.) Of course […]
October 14, 2019
Please Pass the Salt
An open letter to restaurant owners who purposefully do not have salt and pepper on the table: Just stop. And by stop, I mean stop not putting salt and pepper on the table. Or to be more clear. Start putting salt and pepper on the table, right there next to the mood-light candle or trendy […]
September 23, 2019
My Snarky 2019 Emmy Red Carpet Comments
Can I let you in on a secret? You might think that because I’ve been writing this red carpet (that was actually purple this year) post for the last 10ish years, that I not only wait for the Emmy’s (Oscar’s and Golden Globe’s) every year with baited breath, but actually know when they are going […]
June 24, 2019
Crossing Paths
When my son was in elementary school I became friendly with a mom and we realized that we had some mutual friends when we were in college. And by mutual friends I mean that she married her college boyfriend, who was a good friend of a guy that I dated. In fact, we realized that […]
June 10, 2019
Some Things I Did Last Week
Last Monday I climbed these stairs. Four times. There are 377 of them. That’s 1508 steps. But I also climbed them four times the week before and every time we go we do a little bit more so I climbed 50 more. Plus if you really want a 100% accurate count (you do, don’t you?) […]
June 3, 2019
I’m a Little Bit Sad
“I’m a little bit sad,” my son used to say to me when he was three. “I miss my Tatie.” And by Tatie he meant his best friend Katie who he’d just seen the day before. Or maybe an hour before. “It’s okay, buddy,” I’d tell him, giving him a hug. “We’ll see Katie soon.” […]
May 13, 2019
The Book Biz is Hard, Yo
If you read this blog, you probably know I wrote this book. (And if you don’t, you must be blind – it’s plastered all over this blog. See clickable book photo on right. >>>) It took ten years (or maybe it was fourteen – who’s counting?) from the day I wrote “I’ll have a Frosted […]
March 25, 2019
The Knowing and the Not Knowing
I saw Pete Yorn play an acoustic set at the Troubadour recently and it was sublime. I told a couple of people at work that I was going to see him to which they responded, “I don’t know who that is.” It was all I could do not to cry for them. I mean, anyone […]
