Day 1: Tea In Chicago
After a forgotten number of months and years waiting to attend afternoon tea at the luxurious Drake Hotel, I finally made it and realized my dream. As I stirred sugar […]
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Why Don’t You #28
Monday: Why don’t you take some time to clean up your DVR? They can so easily become overwhelming. Mine is stuffed to the bursting with old movies starring Joan Crawford, […]
THINGS I LOVED / HATED THIS WEEK #63
LOVE: Solving The Père Lachaise Mystery Tomb Mystery: A few years ago, Jessica and I spent the day exploring nearly every road and alley of Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. […]
Why Don’t You #24
Monday: Why don’t you go shopping for loads of art supplies and then put them on your desk to give yourself the appearance of a creative type? Even if you […]
Why Don’t You #23
Monday: Why don’t you take an oddly refreshing jaunt out in the snow? I did this yesterday and had an unsettlingly good time on a four-mile walk through the wintry […]
Things I Loved / Hated This Week #58
LOVE: Musicals: If there is one thing I love, it’s a musical! I think every film should have a musical number or two or fourteen…preferably fourteen. I think people should […]
Why Don’t You #21
Monday: Why don’t you spend the day celebrating the oeuvre of one of the musical talents you love and haven’t heard in ages? Today, I’m listening to all of Amy […]
Things I Loved / Hated This Week #57
LOVE: A Thousand Miles up the Nile: I’ve always felt that I was born in the wrong age. Each era of the past is deeply fascinating for me. Everything but […]
2013, A Reflection: Part 1
I regularly feel like I’m wasting my life and have accomplished nothing with my time. I know that this can’t possibly be true, so to counteract these feelings of woe, […]
Things I Loved / Hated This Week #54
LOVE: Beyoncé, Obviously: I’m still not over Bey’s surprise album. None of us are. It was so unexpected and so glorious and so wondrous and so magnificent and so perfect. […]
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