Designer

………………….This photo of Jac and Peggy Grosso was recently posted by Peggy on facebook. She didn’t give a date or any information about the photo. It looks like maybe a wedding shower?…….I love Jac’s expression! I wonder what she was thinking! This was during her short hair faze, and she looks like Twiggy!!…….I remember once when Jac was letting her hair grow, and it was quite long for her…..shoulder length….she did a Sonia Rykiel Show…..Sonia wanted all of the models hair crimped to look like her. Jac had fine hair to begin with, and when one of the hair stylists started to crimp her hair with one of the HOT crimping machines they burned her hair right off!!! Jac was hysterical!…She had so many bookings and her hair was destroyed!! The head hair stylist took Jac to a back room and immediately gave her a super short and super fabulous haircut. Jac loved it! She was the only model in the show with short hair….She started a trend because it looked so new…..This was well after Twiggy so Jac sort of brought it back. I remember her coming back to NY not telling anyone about her hair. She walked into my studio, and was very nervous about the reaction she was going to get…..WE ALL LOVED IT and thought she looked fabulous……I think that episode was well after this picture, and she had already gone through her long hair faze, but I could have that wrong. With out a date to this photo I can only guess………I think Jac looks FABULOUS!

…………………Why is it that I feel this way? It seems to me there are more people doing crazy things to one another, and more and more people who are drinking the lemonade.

……………….This August will be two years since Chris and I went to Africa………..A trip of a lifetime……….Great times……..Great Memories!

………………….I have been paying school taxes for years and years, even though I never had any children……At 75 I think it’s time the government gave us seniors a break!

……………………..Jac and her older sister Marianne…..As children they were always together….Jac adored her older sister…….From 16 on Jac traveled a lot and eventually at 20 got her own apartment in NYC….I was just easier for work than commuting back and forth from Larchmont, NY……Marianne had many jobs. She speaks five languages fluently and became a translator at the UN where her father worked, but found it very boring. She was even a flight attendant for a short while, but thought it was a glorified waitress, and quit. She even worked in a hospital helping foreign speaking pregnant women navigate their stay…….She finally found her dream job with Este Lauder, and was their world wide representative traveling all over the world giving seminars and training the staffs on the newest products for many years….She did this until she married and retired to Mass with her husband. Horses were and are her passion and she competed in jumping….She doesn’t compete anymore, but still owns two horses…..Marianne is an or 11 year [or more]  lung cancer survivor. It was rare that two sisters had lung cancer even thought their types of cancers were totally different…..They were both  treated by Dr. Shaw at Mass General…..and were both given medications, though different, that Dr. Shaw developed……Marianne is still taking hers, and is cancer free…..Marianne is the last survivor of her family. Her father’s family were all killed in Belgium during WW11…..We keep in touch, and let each other know how we are doing…..that’s what Jac would have wanted.