Articles Worth a Second Read

For years I have subscribed to various magazines, relishing the smell of the freshly printed magazines and the smooth finish of the glossy covers. And for years, after I read a magazine from cover-to-cover, I went back through for one final read and ripped out a page (or pages) here and there and cataloged them: “Fashion”, “Beauty – Hair & Skin Care”, “Fitness”, “All Things Chanel”, and “Articles Worth a Second Read.”

I recently went through a huge three-inch binder that held all these magazine pages and made two piles – keep and toss. My keep pile ended up quite small, mainly because as I looked at page after page, more often than not I couldn’t remember what caught my eye on that page (front or back) to make me pull it out of the magazine in the first place.

What I did keep included pages pulled from Allure, InStyle, Marie Claire, Lucky, Glamour, and Vogue, to name a few.

Allure puts out a monthly feature called “Beauty by the Numbers.” In May 2012, it was all about “Sisters.” For instance, Esther Pauline Friedman (Ann Landers) and her twin, Pauline Esther Friedman (Dear Abby) were born 17 minutes apart. (On a side note, it kind of sucks that they both have the same names, except that the first and middle names are switched around.)

Another “sisters” number was “64”, which was the number of pages in One Special Summer, a scrapbook handwritten by Lee Bouvier and illustrated by her sister Jacqueline, about a trip they took to Europe in 1951. They gave it to their parents as a gift on their return, and it was published in 1974.

(On another side note, family scrapbooks are a great way to share family history with current and future generations. I did a “memory book” for both sets of my grandparents, most recently for my mom’s parents last year for Christmas. It is something that our family will cherish and keep for years to come.)

I’m a child of the 80’s and I had the biggest crush on John Cusack… still do, if I’m being honest. I loved the scene in Say Anything when Lloyd (Cusack) was standing outside Diane Court’s window holding that boombox up in the air as Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” played. How romantic!

He was interviewed for Redbook and when he was asked which one role he thought was the most like him, he said that “probably Lloyd in Say Anything is the closest to me – or to who I was at the time. It was just a great love story about people in the ’80s, and we all tried to make it feel as real as possible. And it’s really nice that 20 years later, people still like the movie.”

Ten years after Princess Diana’s death, InStyle featured a five-page spread entitled, “Remembering Princess Diana.” She was not only an inspiration and a role model to her sons, but she was (and still is) an inspiration and a role model to millions around the world.

She had a fairytale wedding to Prince Charles on July 29, 1981; She danced with John Travolta at the White House on November 9, 1985; she wore her heart on her sleeve, and supported causes like pediatric AIDS, land mines, and homelessness; and then she tragically died on August 31, 1997, as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident some say was caused by paparazzi chasing the car in which she and Dodi Al Fayed were riding.

(On yet another side note, Princess Diana first met Mother Teresa in February 1992 and a friendship developed.  Their final meeting was in June 1997, and a little more than two months later, Princess Diana died.  I knew that Mother Teresa was dead, but I didn’t realize until today that she died less than a week after Princess Diana.)

These are just a few articles I decided needed a second glance before I filed them away (again).

Have you read anything interesting lately? Ripped any article out of a magazine or newspaper, or printed one off from the internet? If so, then I’d love to hear about them.

Have a great day!