Don't Ask, Don't Tell

A lot of things have changed in the last few months.  One, I no longer have any desire to clean the house.  I went from an anal-retentive clean freak 20 years ago to a, “well, as long as nothing is growing on it, it can wait until the weekend” kind of girl.  Seems I always have something more fun to do or people to see.  I find it highly satisfying up until the moment I realize that I’ve lost the dog under the layers of dust.  Today, I dusted.  And mowed.  And trimmed trees.  I also picked up the paint to repaint the kitchen because the color I used before went with the old floor, not the new floor.  And cleaned out the garage.  Oh, and picked up some tile to redo the bathrooms this winter.  And converted some digital photos to black & white and hung them in my house.  I followed this up with drafting long, outrageous text messages to tease my girlfriend who has three of her five sisters visiting her. 

One of the items I picked up in my reading this week was news that William J. Mann’s, Kate:  The Woman Who Was Hepburn, is due out very soon.  The more interesting portions, at least to me, being related to the fact that Hepburn was, in fact, at least bisexual and probably lesbian, and her 25-year relationship with married man and fellow movie star Spencer Tracy was a deep one, but not romantic.  Hepburn carefully constructed a mythic romance with Tracy, helped largely by their friends and publicists.  I found it fascinating, after reading the Vanity Fair article, that Hepburn had quite a long string of woman lovers, the major one being American Express heiress Laura Harding in the 1930s (they maintained a relationship until Harding’s death in 1994—as we all know, Lesbians hang onto their former lovers, they may need help moving in the U-Haul).  Whether this is more Hollywood fiction to churn sales will never be determined as Hepburn was a “don’t ask, don’t tell” kind of gal with the public.  This is one book I probably will pick up.

Time to scrub floors and pour a margarita to reward myself!

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ~ Katherine Hepburn

 Published on: Sep 24, 2006