[nopardons]

You've nailed it all quite well! LOL

She HATED being thought of as " the help ", when she ran her catering service.She's always had a grandiose view of herself.

She and a girl friend, when she was first married, had sort of a not so friendly rivalry going,in entertaining their group of friends and used Julia Childs' cookbooks as their bible. As is her wont, Martha " screwed " that friend too.

Signing with Kmart, was just money, money, MONEY; not to mention the manipulations and shenanigans Martha used, to finance her private " lifestyle " and turning herself into someone better known.

[CobaltBlue]

She did a very nice book about restoration of her home in Connecticut, an old house that she restored from the ground up. For the sensibilities expressed in that book, I would forgive her pretty much everything, given that I never invested a nickle in her other than a subscription to her magazines.

And, further in her favor, she published an article in her magazine about Parlange, a plantation home in Pointe Coupee Parish in Louisiana, where my family is from, which truly "got" the virtues of Parlange. I expect that, in both cases, the decisions were made by employees, not the woman herself, but a sympathetic article about Parlange is worth more than rubies in my book. Parlange is where the angels go when they die.

[Queen Jadis]

She's always had a grandiose view of herself.

I've often wondered quite seriously in fact if that view of oneself is a prerequisite to wealth. I've got a lot of self loving insead of self loathing to do.