Alison Garwood Jones

It’s hard to be interesting

Originally published in May 2012 in Blog

… but every now and again something sticks. Thanks guys.

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Swan song

Originally published in February 2012 in Blog

Vocal brilliance and a regal bearing crowbarred their way back into a tragic life right to the end. I had no idea Whitney Houston recorded this in 2009. I gave up on her years ago.    

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I vant to be alone

Originally published in January 2012 in Blog

Groupthink is one hot topic that leaves me cold. I’ve worked at magazines where I had my own office and ones where I sat in the middle of a bunch of cubicles. I think I was at Windowpane No. 4 at Elle. We were on the fifth floor in an open concept and instructed to […]

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Smoking frieze

Originally published in January 2012 in Blog

Photo: “Smoking Frieze” taken by my pal Keith Mulvihill, West 19th Street, NYC, January 3, 2012   Why should we use all of our creative power? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulations of [too many] objects and [too much] money. […]

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