Author Archives: Veronica Varlow

The Dirt: How to Snag Your Secret Crush – A 3 Week Series

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Veronica Varlow

It starts with a confession. Like all good things do. When I met Burke Heffner, there were many women vying for his attention. He had just gotten out of a year long relationship a few months before, and the girls … Continue reading →

Posted in How To Tuesdays | Tagged Burke Heffner, Mix Tapes, Poems, Secret Nick Names, Secret World, Secrets, Snagging your secret crush | Leave a comment

How To Write Your Own Life. What’s Your Abracadabra?

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Veronica Varlow

With the smoke of a stage prop cigarette, I traced the words around my body into the air. The curtain opened and all of the light poured in. The hints of my curled smoke words between me and the audience… … Continue reading →

Posted in Magic Monday | Tagged Abracadbra, Life Authoring, Nuit Blanche, One Word, Performance Magic, Secret Circle, Slipper Room, Ways to Kill Low Self Esteem, Word Magic, Zelda Devon | Leave a comment

Things I Think About Thursday: A Stranger with a Ukelele

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Veronica Varlow

“Are you getting married?” She was standing two feet away from me, behind a picket fence. I was eating ice cream with Contessa. She was passing by with a friend. The white flower crown I was wearing prompted her question. … Continue reading →

Posted in Things I Think About Thursday | Tagged Babs Mansfield, Killian Mansfield, The Killian Mansfield Collection at the Phoencia Library, ukulele project | Leave a comment

How To Throw A Burlesque Themed Party – 5 Easy Tips!

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Veronica Varlow

I am living for wild nights out with my girlfriends lately. This is what 2am this morning looked like: This was AFTER the “Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History” Spring Gala at PS 122. Perhaps Cynthia Von Buhler and Kim … Continue reading →

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Magic Monday: Urban Street Magic and Walls That Talk

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Veronica Varlow

These last 13 years, I’ve had a wild love affair with Brooklyn. She enchanted me, seduced me. I have evidence of the spells she’s put on me. She speaks to me from messages scrawled on her walls…. …to signs slipped … Continue reading →

Posted in Dirty. Glamour. Realness. Life in NYC., Magic Monday | Tagged Alchemy in Alphabets, Banksy, Brooklyn Street Art, Eddie Cola, Lessons on the Walls, Poet Billy Collins, Spells in Syllables, Street Art, The Magic of Street Art, Vhils | Leave a comment

Things I Think About Thursday: Midnight Adventures and the Myths of Growing Up

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Veronica Varlow

My text binged late last night. “Whatcha doing?” My fingers were covered in purple wax drippings, my magic bottles sealed and corked in front of me. The pretty chains to turn them into necklaces crafted next to them. “15 minutes. … Continue reading →

Posted in Things I Think About Thursday, Uncategorized | Tagged Animal, Kim Boekbinder, Music Video, The Impossible Girl, Unexpected adventures | Leave a comment

3 Secret Tips on How To Own a Room

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Veronica Varlow

She. Everything in the room belonged to her. Even the cigarette in his mouth. Watch Marlene Dietrich own. 1,000 0f the 16,047 views that video has logged are probably from me. As I was getting up the courage to enter … Continue reading →

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Magic Monday: Room Readings are New Palm Readings

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Veronica Varlow

I was like a girl with amnesia. I had been on the road for a long time and now I was standing in the middle of my living room…and I wasn’t recognizing anything being mine. I wasn’t connected to anything. … Continue reading →

Posted in Magic Monday, Uncategorized | Tagged Andrea Martin, Burke Heffner, Getting Rid of Everything, MTV, Palm Reading, Room Reading, what does your space say about you? | Leave a comment

Things I Think About Thursday: Walking the Tight Rope of Your Ultimate Dream

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Veronica Varlow

Why the eff do we put off our ultimate dreams? Because the risks are so very high. Because the success vs. failure rate for our dream could have the ability to make or break as people. In the past four … Continue reading →

Posted in Things I Think About Thursday | Tagged fear of failure, Flambeaux, Kickstarter, life lessons, Miss Gemini, Our Lady J, Procrastinating your dreams, Sparkly Devil, Successful Crowdfunding Projects, Tribute | Leave a comment

How To Tuesday: How To Make Anyone Fall In Love With You.

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Veronica Varlow

It started, as most things do, with a conversation. I had a hot Skype date with Ariadne last week who won by leaving a comment in this post. We wore our flower crowns together, gushed over each other’s rooms, I … Continue reading →

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