Amstel Light
"The more I see of Amsterdam, the more I long to see." -- Rembrandt
Take Me Back to London
Lovely weather, lovely people, lovely places to not get stepped on looking at art. On Instagram, there is a trend toward photo-dumping, where you post a bunch of random, unedited photos from, say, your summer, and it all looks unfiltered and whatever-passes-for-real on the internet. I mulled over doing a
The Return of a So-Called Innocent from Abroad
I don't want to be back, but my bed is nice, plus my profile of journalist Soledad O'Brien, and how I laughed at my TBR pile once again. My excuse: reading is fundamental. Hello readers, I have returned from almost two weeks in London and then
Jolly Good Lives
"No one is remembered in a grand cathedral for dying in an embarrassing fashion, or for a scandal that shames their children."
Sympathy's Requiem
“No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else” -- Goethe
Spinning Your Wheels
"Some times it pays to lean way the hell in. Other times it helps to step away."
Is this thing on?
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that remains.” -- Anne Frank
Hanging on the Telephone
"I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall. If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall" -- Blondie
Endless Summer
"You're not bored. You just think you are." -- a parent, probably
Miss America
Once I got home, my brain was whirlygigging about like Honey Balenciaga until maybe 3 a.m.
