S2 Ep2: Small Spaces and a Picasso

Does size really matter?

Two little girls sitting on a bed for a slumber party. Circa 1960.
My childhood bedroom was so small . . . I was limited to one friend per slumber party.
Cover of the "Schmitty Goes Holllywoof" calendar from 2008. Yorkie Schmitty The Weather Dog is sitting regally on the cover with a gold metallic raincoat on and cat eyed sunglasses.
A calendar classic that never goes out of date. Wait. Yes, it does. It’s a calendar.
World champion Ragtime piano player, Ron Trotta, is singing into a microphone with his sidekick, Elly McGuire behind him - both crooning on the Crystal Harmony cruise ship.
Ron and I crooning around the world on the Crystal Harmony Cruise ship.
A little Yorkie sits on a blue and white rug, in front of a very small kitchen - with a blue and white checkerboard back drop, shiny white cabinets, a bar size silver refrigerator.
Having a tiny dog makes my NYC kitchen look much bigger!
Elly McGuire, standing up and holding her two Yorkshire Terriers, poses with Francoise Gilot, a famous artist and mistress of Picasso.
Francoise Gilot, famous artist & author of My Life With Picasso, visits my pups & me in our (then) Ralph Lauren red apt.
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Circa 1969
Elly McGuire

Author of the children’s book, Schmitty The Weather Dog:Daydream and the forthcoming memoir, Shaking The Bushes, Elly also shares favorite stories and observations podcasting from the library in her hometown of Warwick, Rhode Island.