“Don’t you know who I am?” I love saying that to people. You see in my own head I am a celebrity. Well I should be. I have been known to stumble out of bars at various hours, known to wave at people applauding even when it’s not for me, and have ideas about starting […]

I’m sorry did you say your name was Cola? Oh, Lola! My mistake. Well hello Lola. You’re a show girl you say? And yellow feathers in your hair. Charming. This is my introduction to the Copacabana Palace located in Rio de Janeiro.  That one song, as awful as it is and now only played at weddings, […]

“Make it a double” I tell the barman. He nods. He has been around New York long enough to know that a single man at a bar in Manhattan needs a double at night. As I sit waiting for the drink to be made, never quick enough, the red leather bar stool is making it […]