Stepping Into Wendy's World

I just want to give a shout out for Wendy Brandes who managed to start another blog promoting Francis, the new line of designer Christian Francis Roth and more

http://francisnewyork.com/blog/

in addition to writing her own blog and designing and promoting her own line of jewelry with this website and social networking and twittering in between attending gallery openings, elegant dinner parties and gala events and vintage shopping.

Is there anything this woman can't do?

Well yes...there is.

She can link to BHB....

Wendy...I'm waiting....

Books - Oh The Calamity!

If you haven't already read Wendy B's post on Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror - The Calamitous 14th Century" you need to read it now.

It's become de rigueur for newspaper columnists, bloggers and people standing around the water cooler to bemoan the decline of civilization as evidenced by what one historian called "economic chaos, social unrest, high prices, profiteering, depraved morals, lack of production, industrial indolence, frenetic gaiety, wild expenditure, luxury, debauchery, social and religious hysteria, greed, avarice, maladministration, decay of manners."

If you're feeling panicky over the state of the world, A Distant Mirror is my prescription for what ails you.

Tuchman, writing in 1978, says, "If our last decade or two of collapsing assumptions has been a period of unusual discomfort, it is reassuring to know that the human species has lived through worse before."

As they say...read the whole thing.

And, what I want to know is where is Wendy's instalaunch?