Me and the infamous Gus.
You’ve got to love a cat who eats green beans but leaves a whole turkey untouched. I’ll be talking about Gus and Extreme Mothers today (May 20th) on Ricki Lake! Tune in.
When we were at the American School in London, a Thames Television show called Magpie sponsored us on a flamingo-tagging trip to Lake Nakuru in Kenya.
I had a wonderful time at my old school, Beaver Country Day in Boston, talking to a number of classes of students in the theater and then reading and signing books for alumni in the afternoon.
People who knew me then frequently say that they had no idea what kind of craziness was going on in my life (although my mother’s arrest at my sister’s Beaver graduation kind of opened a window). Mostly that was because I was afraid to let anyone know. As I say in the book, covering it up was my full-time job.
But kids like the students I met at Beaver are eager to know and ask lots of questions about how I survived — I suspect because some of them are going through their own difficult times. One of the reasons I wrote the book was that I was hoping young people would read it and know that they’re not alone and don’t have to be alone.
With my incredibly brave sister, Robin, co-heroine of Chanel making her first return to Beaver since the cops showed up.
Barack wasn’t there yesterday…
But I had a wonderful time talking to Connie Martinson on her Santa Monica based show, Connie Martinson Talks Books. She’s a very thoughtful reader and interviewer and it was a real pleasure. A a quick search of her YouTube channel guest list puts me in honorable company.
On my way back from Boston I had a layover in the very nice Memphis Airport and an awesome bar-b-que sandwich and coleslaw (on it, of course) at Jim Neely’s Interstate Bar-B-Que…
And discovered their book store has a Bad Mom section! Over to Santa Monica tomorrow to tape the fabulous “Connie Martinson Talks Books”.
If you’re not lucky enough to be passing through Memphis or Southhaven, MS, you can get your BBQ fix on line at: www.interstatebarbecue.com
It’s strange to find myself in Boston on Mother’s Day weekend. I’m speaking to students and alumni at my old high school Beaver Country Day (scene of Mother’s arrest at my sister’s graduation).
My old self, Wendy Rea, dreaming of Broadway. And despite everything, ten years later that’s where I ended up in the Heidi Chronicles. I talked to the students about Chanel and surviving a homelife I’d tried to conceal. I think it’s important for kids, for people, who may think they’re alone in that situation to know that they’re not and that they can come through it and achieve what they hope to achieve.
Interviews me today on his amazing blog Betty Confidential. LOVE him. Read more at http://bettyconfidential.com/if-mommie-dearest-and-running-with%e2%80%a8-scissors-had-a-love-child-meet-wendy-lawless-author-of-this-summers-hottest-read-chanel-bonfire/#udhRjPyvFFc0e2IQ.99