More On My Fifteen Minutes

So, in the current issue of O at Home magazine, just a few pages in, down at the bottom of the page you'll see a photo of me beside some comments I made about tips for home decorating. (For the tens of you out there - and I realize tens is most likely an exaggeration but I don't know a smaller version with which to make fun of myself - this might indeed be the only photo of me you'll see.)

This is ironic for many reasons. The first reason, and the one that those of you who know me will have seen firsthand, is that while I can certainly speak intelligently about home decor, my own home is not, well, decorated. I have a square footage of a small space and I have the stuff of a big one.

The irony does not end there Dear Reader. One must take into account that one of my childhood dreams (which I have to think about because although I wrote in a diary back then - journalling was not yet a word coined - I no longer have those diaries) was to be a writer and have people reading the things I wrote. Clearly, I was not specific. As an adult, I had begun to make lists or to itemize the things I wanted to attract. I told the Universe that I wanted my words in Oprah Magazine. Less than a year after I said this, I got a call from an editorial assistant at O at Home who wanted to use my words and who asap needed a head shot of me.

I did not happen to have an 8X10 glossy on hand, nor did I have the jpeg version she required. I needed someone to take my picture that day. I needed a photo on a white background with "normal" hair and makeup. Was she kidding? My normal hair, the stuff that was on my head was not international magazine ready! I had just finished a day of cooking and humid frizz was a fairly accurate description of the style I was wearing...

I decided authenticity was going to have to work and I drove to my husband's office where he snapped a couple shots. I sent them off with my fingers crossed that their photoshop specialists would make me more international magazine ready than my Sony Cybershot camera could present. (They did - sort of.)

Anyhow, all of this long-winded post is a preface to this: I had put out my intention that I wanted to be in an Oprah magazine. Within a year, I had achieved the goal. The specific goal would have been to have an article I'd written appear in O, The Oprah magazine. That is my new intention. Let's see how long it takes.