It’s a merry time for women from behind, as well as in front of, the camera this holiday season with top grossing movies featuring two female directors and a slew of powerful actresses. I am personally intrigued by Cheryl Strayed’s book turned movie, Wild, because it is not about a woman finding love in another. It is about a woman finding her Self after great domestic upheaval through a 1,100 mile solitary hike in the woods.
Reese Witherspoon produced and stars in Wild, braving unshaved legs and no makeup. I like that as a mother of teens, she aspires to teach them to be brave and live life fully, with curiosity and love. That all the things we spend time worrying about are not important. That we will meet amazing and helpful people in our journey who will love us regardless of the parents we have. That we will do better than ok if we choose to spend less time tearing ourselves apart and admit that we’re good enough.
As she approaches 40, she admits that in her 20s, she didn’t realize that no one else can make her whole–no relationship, no child, no nothing can make her a happy person. I admire a woman who mans up to the reality that her happiness is up to her. That’s wild!
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If I had a party animal husband or at least one who stays up past 8:00 pm, I’d know exactly where to go for glamour gowns and dresses. It’s the very elegant yet cozy boutique run by Paula and Maria, a mother daughter duo, who personally attend to your particular taste and style. Their shop manager, Fern, is equally charming–all so fortunate to have daughters to create happy holiday memories with. There’s nothing like personalized attention and caring service by a loving family with great fashion sense.
This lace corset style top and most unique train skirt count among their favorite ensembles this season. Feel the warm welcome when you stop by to meet them and their handpicked collection!
The Engle Shop
102 Engle Street
Englewood, NJ 07631
(201) 568-1331
Like this Powerful Goddess, Cleopatra’s charms went way beyond beauty. She had a keen intellect, a theatrical sense of style, and a force of character that rendered her presence irresistible. She knew how to make an indelible first impression, a grand entrance designed to weaken the knees of an audience of one or of the entire town. Even before email and despite stiff competition while her lovers traveled far and wide enduring mortal danger to expand her queendom, she new how to stir the pot of fun to keep her man coming back for more.
What ideas does this legend inspire for an extraordinary Thanksgiving feast? Present your beloved with your glamorous Powerful Goddess Cleopatra portraits before wrapping yourself in bandages like a mummy. Let him unwrap you with his teeth, licks and kisses required for each exposed part. Use the bandages to blindfold and tie him up later.
For now, click on “Leave a Comment” (above left) to add your genius on how to make Thanksgiving memorable.
“Say Yes to everything!” is fair warning and the only way to make the most of any experience, yes? At Queen of the Night, Broadway’s cabaret of connection and seduction, you’re immersed in dance, performance theater, circus, magic and bacchanalia, with dinner that makes a grand entrance from the stage. Say Yes when performers want to sit on your lap, invite you to who knows what or where, or dance on top of your dinner table. Say Yes to teasing, touching and being spoon fed dessert. And if you can’t say Yes to the roasted suckling pig on a spit, lobster served in birdcages, or the most delicious ribs, just ask for their vegetarian table.
Queen of the Night is on limited engagement until December at the Diamond Horseshoe Theater of the Paramount Hotel. Plan a different holiday celebration with the ladies, fun couples, or make new friends when you get there. Appoint yourselves Queens of the Night by adding bling and fur to that long dress that’s been sitting in the back of your closet!
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When I was growing up, Halloween was All Souls Day. Parties, costumes and candy had absolutely nothing to do with it. The closest it came to partying was how we had to hang out with relatives at the cemetery, saying hello to the families in the grave next door as we cleaned up family plots in honor of our dear departed. I have no doubt I would have much preferred trick or treat.
From Pema Chodron’s “When Things Fall Apart”:
We are raised in a culture that fears death and hides it from us. Nevertheless, we experience it all the time. We experience it in the form of disappointment, in the form of things not working out. We experience it in the form of things always being in the process of change. When the day ends, when the second ends, when we breathe out, that’s death in everyday life.
Death in everyday life can also be defined as experiencing all the things we don’t want. Our marriage isn’t working; our job isn’t coming together. Having a relationship with death in everyday life means that we begin to be able to wait, to relax with insecurity, with panic, with embarrassment, with things, not working out. Time passing is as natural as the seasons changing and day turning into night. But getting old, getting sick losing what we love–we don’t see these events as natural occurrences. We want to ward off that sense of death, no matter what.
Giving up hope is encouragement to stick with yourself, to make friends with yourself, to not run away from yourself no matter what’s going on. Fear of death is the background of the whole thing. It’s why we feel restless, why we panic, why there’s anxiety. But if we totally experience hopelessness, giving up all hope of alternatives to the present moment, we can have a joyful relationship with our lives, an honest, direct relationship, one that no longer ignores the reality of impermanence and death.
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. From an awakened point of view, that’s life. Death is wanting to hold on to what you have to have every experience confirm you and congratulate you and make you feel completely together.
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There’s a big difference between race and culture.
Because racially, I’m an Indian man.
Culturally, not at all.
Russell Peters
Happy Diwali to you! I love festivities of all kinds and more so when it’s rich with the brave flavors and colors of India. To add your spice to your celebration of the Festival of Lights, click on “Leave a Comment” (above left) and list your favorite India inspired films here:
Water
A widow forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi tries to escape the social restrictions imposed on her station with a man who is from the highest caste. Directed by Deepa Mehta
Slumdog Millionaire
An uneducated orphan from the slums of Mumbai gives the correct answers to all the questions on the game show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But How? Directed by Danny Boyle
The Namesake
American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family’s unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways. Directed by Mira Nair.
Aussie Sarah Turnbull’s memoir “Almost French” tells of her adventures in moving to the other side of the planet with the Frenchman she married. Reading her story was reminiscent of my own even as it transported me to the minutiae of Parisian life I may never experience as a tourist.
This Powerful Goddess also shares our story of braving a new life where love led her. I recognize the courage it took for her to trust her choices from the first moment she decided to follow destiny, and then over and over again through life’s baths and dry spells over the years. Who can really know the strength it takes to face the challenges of solitude and personal reinvention far from supportive family and friends? Here’s to the brave!
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Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy.
First, let her think she’s having her own way.
Second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The beauty of George Clooney’s gorgeous new bride, Amal Alamuddin, reminds me so much of Powerful Goddess Cora Poage. For those of us who have many years of “been there, done that,” what does it take to keep making your “happy ever after?” Here’s a handy collection of books for couples, newly married or not:
I Need Your Love–Is that true? by Byron Katie
Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love: 30 Minutes a Week to the Relationship You’ve Always Wanted by Marcia Naomi Berger
The Art of War for Lovers by Connell Cowall
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen Fisher
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L’Shanah Tovah! The Jewish New Year brings to mind the quote above. I love the metaphor that like art, I create my life from chaos, messiness, not knowing better, with an eclectic mix of influences. In honor of some of my favorite people whose birthdays and new beginnings seem to cluster at this time of year, I dedicate these musings on their life choices that have inspired me as I create my own work of art–some realizations, some questions that I’m sure has echoed in the beautiful mind of Goddesses through the ages:
What’s the fun in life without our imperfections?
Must happiness depend on owning whom or what we desire?
If we must wear “busy, busy, busy” as a badge of pride, what does such busy-ness cost us?
Whom do I allow to decide what is enough for me to want and need?
When we feel like jumping in to rescue someone in apparent hell, is it possible that (s)he may actually be in his/her version of heaven and have no wish to be saved?
Alone is not necessarily lonely. Just as being in a relationship is no guarantee against loneliness.
A day without laughter is wasted.
True love is the gift we give ourselves. And may the giving of it be satisfaction enough so we need not become beholden to the binds of ingratitude, lack of appreciation, or unrequited love.
When fairytales spare us the details of “happily ever after,” it leaves the HOW to our imagination.
Anyone who insists you owe them your honesty simply wants to control and judge you–for your own good, of course! 😉
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This morning, I kissed the kids goodbye –or good riddance? 😉 –as they dragged sleepy heads and heavy backpacks out the door. There has been very little contest between books and computer games through the summer and it is a sad kind of funny how they find reading a chore. Will I live to see the day when they’ll fall in love with learning just for the fun of it? Perhaps these seduction tips from Robert Greene’s “The Art of Seduction” can help me parent with charm through gritted teeth:
Remember the person who interests us most is our own self. Get inside the other person’s skin, piercing their psychology.
Stop saying the first thing that comes to your mind–you must control the urge to prattle and vent. Say things that please, that relate to their lives and touch their vanity. Say things that are witty and entertaining, or that make the future seem bright and hopeful.
Do not become sentimental–it is tiring, and too direct. The most anti-seductive form of language is argument. The superior way to get people to listen and be persuaded? Humor and a light touch.
Let them get an intriguing impression of you while you show no particular interest in them.
Focus on feelings and sensations, using expressions that are ripe with connotation. Plant ideas by dropping hints, writing suggestively without explaining yourself. Never lecture, never seem intellectual or superior. It is more persuasive to appeal to people’s hearts than their heads.
Flattery is music to anyone’s ears and is seductive language in its purest form. This is language designed to move people and lower their tolerance. Aim at the person’s weakness, the areas where he needs validation. Sniff out a talent or positive quality that others have not noticed.
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This Powerful Goddess has a thing for moody portraits, yet she has that joie de vivre and a smile more sunshiny than her halo of golden hair. As a European, she had always dreamed of living like a local in New York City. What to do with the minor glitch of having a devoted husband whose career didn’t allow for an extended sabbatical?
“I want to live in New York for awhile,” she blurts over their dinner for two last year.
“Say that again?” her husband couldn’t be sure he heard her right.
But he did. And knowing that this has been a big item on her bucket list, he helped figure out how to make her Manhattan adventure possible: living on her own this side of the Atlantic, taking classes to learn new skills, and expanding her world with new friends along the way.
Now that she’s back home celebrating the next chapter of her fabulous life, these portraits count among her favorite souvenirs of how well she welcomed her golden age, thanks to her great courage and her husband’s grand gesture of love and generosity.
The happiest of birthdays to you, Powerful Goddess! You must tell your darling man he is a gem truly worth his weight in gold while I practice saying to my husband “I’d like to live in Europe for awhile.” 😉
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A quiet pause to honor a fireball of laughs, Robin Williams. His genius for improv was said to be honed by a solitary childhood. His standup comedy put our pain and miseries in hilarious perspective. If our darkness is the birth place of our light, why do we feel compelled to hide behind a constant cheerful mask?
While a performer lives for the audience’s laughter and applause, he must always muster the courage to bare his soul to relentless critics. I prefer to honor this man’s great legacy through movies that family generations can enjoy together than remembering him for how he chose to die.
Please add your favorite Robin Williams movie by clicking on “Leave a Comment” (above left). xoxox
Mrs. Doubtfire
My favorite Robin Williams movie! Daniel Hillard (Williams) is a kind man and a loving father, but he’s a shaky role model for the kids so he loses custody when the wife divorced him. Learning that his wife was advertising for a housekeeper, Daniel applies for the job as the perfect Scottish nanny so he can see his children more than once a week.
Patch Adams
A medical student strives to improve the quality of life of terminally ill patients and prove that laughter is the best medicine. “When you treat a disease, you win or you lose. But when you treat a person, you win no matter what the outcome.”
An embattled English teacher at a private academy inspires students with the power of language and all that make life worth living: poetry romance, love.
Birdcage
A gay couple attempts to present a “normal” family when their son brings home his fiancee’s parents.
A milquetoast high school teacher pens a phony suicide note for his son after discovering him dead of auto-erotic asphyxiation. I love the scene of how he masks frustration and tears with stifled laughter when a colleague comments “Raising a child is the toughest job you’ll ever know.”
Released during the peak of the Cold War 1980s, a Soviet circus musician (played by Williams in an early dramatic role) defects to the United States while he’s in New York for a performance.
The wartime experience of real-life Armed Forces Radio Service DJ Adrian Cronauer, finding belly laughs as well as poignant drama in his attempts to survive the war while finding friendship and battling the hypocrisy of his superiors. Life, liberty, happiness is America!
As the therapist who helps Will Hunting (Matt Damon) move beyond his troubled past, Williams provided an impetus for the film’s touching final act while delivering some of his most sensitive dramatic work.
His largely ad-libbed voice work as the genie in 1992’s Aladdin represents the best of Williams firing on all cylinders and delivering some of his funniest lines without having to carry the film.
Because I love comedy, Old Hollywood glamour, and a woman who laughs with the world even as she makes a fool of herself, I kiss the feet of a most memorable summer birthday girl, one of America’s most beloved comedians, Lucille Ball.
Born determined on August 6, 1911, Lucille signed up for drama school in her teens despite her shy nature. She went on to try anything and everything from modeling, radio, vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood trying to make ends meet while keeping her family together. She eventually produced her own iconic television show I Love Lucy, the first to be filmed in front of a live audience. As a fearless pioneer, she was the first woman to be featured pregnant in television history and more people tuned in for the episode when she “delivered” her son than for presidential inauguration of Eisenhower.
Memorable quotes from this unforgettable funny woman:
How was I Love Lucy born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.
I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.
Luck to me is hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into place.
And her consolation for parents who’ve lost their teens to friends and/or the computers?
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Thank you, Lucy, for all the laughter and wisdom through the years!
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The Jazz Age Lawn Party was originated by Michael Arenella, the leader of the Dreamland Orchestra, steeped in the hot-dance band tradition of the 1920s and early 1930s. On Saturday, August 16, 2014 at 11:00 am (Governors Island 10 S St Slip 7, New York, NY), Governors Island steps back in time to celebrate the Jazz Age era with attendees wearing their flapper vintage best.
This is really the summer to brush up your Shakespeare. Before the endless lines begin for the Public Theater’s free Shakespeare in the Park production of “King Lear,” starring John Lithgow, observe Simon Russell Beale as directed by Sam Mendes. “King Lear” hasn’t been staged in Central Park since 1973 with James Earl Jones. Annette Bening as Goneril ups the ante (July 22-Aug. 17, publictheater.org) at the Delacorte Theater. And when I’m in Central Park, I simply must dine at the Boathouse!
Make your first impression count by polishing your personal brand and mastering the do’s and don’ts of cocktail parties at the Etiquette School of New York (200 East 64th Street, Manhattan, June 26, $575, etiquette-ny.com).
If you missed the best outdoor dance parties of Midsummer Night Swing, Lincoln Center continues the summer celebration with a variety of shows and concerts the rest of the summer: Dan Zanes and Peter Yarrow are among the singers for a Pete and Toshi Seeger memorial concert (July 20), Roberta Flack (July 26) and Rosanne Cash (Aug. 9), and nights of poetry and dance (July 20-Aug. 10, free, lcoutofdoors.org). The classical music heard during Mostly Mozart, of course, is not all Mozart. The monthlong extravaganza begins with the premiere of John Luther Adams’s Inuit-influenced “Sila: The Breath of the World” and makes room for a premiere work by the Mark Morris Dance Group (July 25-Aug. 23).
On Broadway until August, treat yourself to intimate encounters with the comely cast members of Queen of the Night. Every individual’s experience will be different if you happen to be chosen by any of the “butlers”–show wranglers who spirit customers away for private encounters. Your hand may be kissed, fondled or perhaps placed on a naked hip. You may find yourself familiarly stroked as you wander the rooms of the lavishly restored Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe nightclub in the basement of the Paramount Hotel on West 46th Street.
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Another birthday for me this week and I am happy to notice that I’m in a good place–of surrender! I can patiently sit through women’s conversations about weight, diets, workout obsessions, and cosmetic procedures without feeling compelled to chime in or do something about myself. But when I hear the husbands discuss the exact same topics among themselves, I do wonder, “What has our world come to?” As we age, is it our fear of death that makes us cling to vestiges of youth and beauty? Why, just a couple of centuries ago, men and women could not have even expected to live past their 40’s! I say anything beyond it is a big bonus to relish, not worry over. 😉
So what does help me age graciously? A wicked sense of humor, the thought (and threat) of the example I’m giving my daughter, and taking a lifetime to question what I grew up believing. Plus there was that secret pact I made as a teen with God that I would not complain about anything else if my pimples would just go away, pretty please. Reality is always easier to bear with a little grin as in this Stop The Beauty Madness ad campaign.
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Here’s Summer! With three teens under my roof, freedom and independence are never far from my mind even when it’s not the 4th of July. On the radio, I hear lyrics of pop songs like Wasted and Fancy that revel in the freedom of being unconsciousness, blacking out as a convenient excuse for “I don’t know what happened to me!” Do the young seriously believe adults don’t crave this same relief from living the straight and narrow?! Red, white, and blue don’t do as much for me as seeing red lips pop on black and white with Powerful Goddess Cora Poage.
Pema Chodron speaks of a more genuine freedom in this excerpt from her book When Things Fall Apart:
We are told from childhood that something is wrong with us, with the world, and with everything that comes along: it’s not perfect, it has rough edges, it has a bitter taste, it’s too loud, too soft, too sharp, too wishy-washy. We cultivate a sense of trying to make things better because something is bad here, something is a mistake here, something is a problem here.
To dissolve this dualism, we must question our habitual tendency to struggle against what’s happening to us or in us. What if we move toward difficulties than backing away? We don’t get this kind of encouragement very often.
Everything that occurs in our lives is not only usable and workable but is actually the path itself. We can use everything that happens to us as the means for waking up. We can use everything that occurs–whether it’s our emotions and thoughts or our seemingly outer situation–to show us where we are asleep and how we can wake up completely, utterly, without reservations.
In the practice of lojong, a slogan says, “When the world is filled with evil, all mishaps, all difficulties, should be transformed into the path of enlightenment.”
We’re trying to learn not to split ourselves between our “good side” and our “bad side,” between our “pure side” and our “impure side.” The elemental struggle is with our feeling of being wrong, with our guilt and shame at what we are. That’s what we have to befriend. The point is that we can dissolve the sense of dualism between us and them, between this and that, between here and there, by moving toward what we find difficult and wish to push away.
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Women want men, careers, money, children, friends,
freedom, respect, love,
and three dollar pantyhose that won’t run.
Phyllis Diller
We don’t have TV, so the only time I see an ad is when I catch up on the latest episode of “Reign” with my daughter on CW.com. She is thirteen soon and thinks she’s twenty. She wants the right to roam and bike the streets alone like her much bigger and older brothers. She tests my resolve to mother through reason because she is certain she will know what to do in dire circumstances and that nothing bad can possibly happen in broad daylight.
I admit there is a very good chance I will always be more concerned for her safety even when she’s as old and tall as her brothers. I also recognize the disparity with which we speak and treat children of either sex as exemplified by this ad I love:
National Science Foundationcites the statistic that while 66 percent of 4th grade girls say they like science and math, only 18 percent of all college engineering majors are female. This powerful commercial is a partnership between Verizon and Makers, narrated byGirls Who Codefounder, Reshma Saujani. Girls Who Code provides free intensive summer programs to encourage girls in their sophomore or junior year in highschool to explore their love of technology and computer science. Prior computer science experience is not required!
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“What did you love about Maleficent?,” I asked my daughter after our very happy Father’s Day at the movies without the men.
“She’s very pretty!” she smiled. May we all be as easy to please! Indeed, what’s not to love about a strong and beautiful heroine–albeit a villain, too?
Maleficent is the wronged and misunderstood woman in this revisionist-backstory fairytale. She suffers the deepest betrayal imaginable from the person she loves and trusts the most, the one with whom she shares her first “true love’s” kiss. While it is mainly about bloodlust after being violated and stripped of our power, it is also about the journey of moving forward and making the most of what is. I like how it reverses the pedestrian notion of true love, a necessary expansion of every child’s understanding of what real love can be.
Best of all, I love how it is a cautionary tale against quick judgments and our propensity to take every “victim’s” side. Like King Stefan, it is human nature to choose the version of the story that makes us look good and pitiful. It takes courage to notice that when we feel like “Woe is me!,” there is an angle of culpability we’re not admitting. For in every beauty, there is a beast. And in every villain, a heroine who can save herself.
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That we might learn a thing or two from men on Father’s Day, an excerpt from Elizabeth Wurtzel’s The Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women:
I have no quarrel with The Rules or the advice it gives–it actually seems pretty sound to me–but if we had really come a long way, baby, if men’s perceptions of women had transformed fundamentally and intensely so that we are accepted as full-fledged sexual creatures and romantic operatives who were free to chase or be chased, and if this expanded dimension of women’s sexual personae were not frightening or overwhelming to them, then we would not need The Rules.
So of course the bitch persona appeals to us. It is the illusion of liberation, of libertine abandon. What if you want to be large in a world that would have you be small, diminished? You don’t want to diet, you don’t want to say no, thank you, and pretend somehow that what is there is enough when always, always, you want more. That has been your defining characteristic: You have appetites, and only if you are truly shameless will you even begin to be sated because nothing is ever really enough. Not because you are greedy or insatiable but because you can’t help it, you can’t go along with the fiction that the world would have you believe and adhere to: that you ought to settle and be careful and accept the crumbs that are supposed to pass for a life, this minimized self you are supposed to put up with.
This is about what has become the almost monstrous notion of female desire. this is not about making demands of other people or wearing down those who have their own screams for MORE! to address. You’d be amazed at how often we are reluctant to indulge ourselves by our own means. It is amazing that the smallness of the space we’ve been told to squeeze into has meant that we don’t even know how to ask or what to want.
How nice it must be to just decide I will not be nice, I am never sorry, I have no regrets: what is before me belongs to me. For men, this attitude is second nature, it’s as much in their atmosphere as snow is in an Eskimo’s. They don’t even know how much they assume.
A very Happy Father’s Day to our favorite heroes! Click on “Leave a Comment” (above left) to share what you love about men.
Can’t beat this excellent location between Union Square and the Embarcadero! The BART train to/from the airport stops right at the hotel door (Montgomery station.) Ask Front Desk for rooms on the 8th floor facing the street for a large arch window. The room carpet is a bit tired, but the the staff members are kind, bathrobe and pillows are plump, and their Garden Court is absolutely magnificent! Pianist Gea plays jazz and classical music after 5:00 pm.
My absolute fave in this town and a glorious photo opp! For best photos, visit early in the morning when the sun shines on the majestic columns and all other people are still in bed. Or just sit on a bench by the pond and soak in the beauty of the architecture.
You don’t seriously believe I biked here, do you? I gave up dodging other tourists to take an unusual shot and on my way back to the car, I spied these bikes posing for a photo. Climb up the hill on the far side of the bridge to get the best scenic shots of Alcatraz and the city.
Escape the city crowds and take a scenic drive on the Pacific Coast to the Ritz at Half Moon Bay. Stop for a romantic lunch or dinner, maybe a round of golf with an ocean view or stay the night.
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