If, over the years, you have enjoyed reading my intermittent blogs, It may be that you will enjoy reading my autobiography too. It has just been published on Amazon, entitled "I'll Be There - Vignettes of an Intrepid Traveller". I would love for you to take a look at it. And if you like what … Continue reading I’ll Be There – Vignettes of an Intrepid Traveller
8000 MILES & 8 TIME ZONES
(A young adventurer’s solo journey across the Soviet Union and Siberia during the height of the Cold War) Saturday April 20th 1968, Hotel Metropole, the Soviet Union “Are you sure you’re safe? I’ve been so worried about you.” After a disturbing number of clicks, my mother’s voice echoed down the line, “I haven’t been able … Continue reading 8000 MILES & 8 TIME ZONES
CARNEGIE HALL DAYS
My new home in New York was a studio above Carnegie Hall I shared with my boyfriend, society columnist Joseph X Dever. Our neighbours in some of the other studios included the jazz pianist and cabaret singer Bobby Short, the Italian impresario Gian Carlo Menotti, the famous milliner and NY street photographer Bill Cunningham, the … Continue reading CARNEGIE HALL DAYS
Revisiting the 60s from Manila Nostalgia
LEAD Magazine 7 April · SABEL'S BAMBANG, CAROLINE'S LONDON (3/4) By EDGAR O. CRUZ THE DAILY TRIBUNE, APRIL 8, 2015 VISUAL: PORTRAIT (THE ARTIST'S WIFE) BY BENCAB Caroline Kennedy visits the Philippines, particularly Metro Manila, the Mountain Province and Palawan, this April. In 1968, the blonde British writer met BenCab at Indios Bravos as the … Continue reading Revisiting the 60s from Manila Nostalgia
From Mere Mortal to Living Goddess
This is a story I have dined out on for many years. I enjoy watching people's expressions when I casually drop the line: "Did you realize you have just been having dinner with a "living goddess"? I could write a whole chapter about the reactions I have received! One cold, misty January morning, Ben and … Continue reading From Mere Mortal to Living Goddess
Andy, Edie and Baby Jane
By the end of 1964 I had met some of New York’s most prized artists, Larry Rivers, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Salvador Dali and Jasper Johns. But the artist I really wanted to meet was Andy Warhol. To me Warhol, though naturally shy on a personal level, epitomized everything that was brash, cocky and arrogant … Continue reading Andy, Edie and Baby Jane
Caroline Kennedy: My Travels 