Monday, November 24, 2008
My first blog post
Hello friends. I am new to this, and feeling a bit tentative, so bear with me. I actually have no idea how I'm going to structure this blog. Be back later.
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The Bronte Sisters
No, just the Carpenter girls at Sophie's wedding
Annie, Leslie, Steve during an evening at Monticello
Monticello debauch
Leslie, Smokie and Annie, either 1999 or 2000
divinely Audrey
when in doubt: what would Audrey Hepburn do?
Things I adore
- "The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" number from "The Harvey Girls," intermittently available on YouTube
- Agraria candles
- American cookbooks -- Sally Schneider, Ina Garten
- Audrey Hepburn
- "Come Darkness, Come Light," Mary Chapin Carpenter's stunning Christmas CD
- British cookbooks -- Simon Hopkinson, Nigel Slater
- Britten's Ceremony of Carols sung by the King's College Choir
- Christopher Plummer
- Der Rosenkavalier's last trio
- E.B. White
- Diptyque's "Feu de Bois" candle
- Fats Waller because my father loves his music and used to play it late at night after a party
- Faure's Requiem
- Fred Astaire singing "All of You" in the movie "Silk Stockings"
- GardenStory, a PBS series created and hosted by noted garden designer Rebecca Frischkorn
- Grace Kelly in Rear Window
- Jo Malone's Orange Blossom scent
- Lanz nightgowns
- Mock Orange "Belle Etoile"
- My MP3 player
- Peet's mail order coffee
- peonies
- "To Earthward" by Robert Frost
- "The Transit of Venus" by Shirley Hazzard
- Susy Bales' incredible Long Island garden, and all her garden books
- skiing
- J.Crew
- Marjorie Williams' writing
- Toadflax
- Tombeau de Couperin by Ravel
- Vivien Leigh
My hero
Christopher Plummer
Darling Viv
my favorite actress, ever
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About Me
- Mackenzie Carpenter
- My official bio, as it reads in the Post-Gazette: Mackenzie Carpenter is a feature writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She has won national, state and local awards for her reporting on health care, education, children and family issues and legal affairs. Before arriving at the PG in 1990, Carpenter covered politics for United Press International in Harrisburg and was a producer and reporter for public television stations in Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania. She was raised in Princeton, N.J. and Tokyo. She has a bachelor's degree from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and a master's degree in studies in law from Yale Law School. She is married to PG reporter Gary Rotstein.