Reflections on the small things, and the big ones, that impact our day-to-day lives.
Snowball Wedding
My parents’ wedding album is, by any standards, a treasure. Leather-bound eggshell white, photo sleeves edged in stitched piping, it pretty much took a shelf of its own in a small foyer closet…
Summer of Love
I’m now at that age where it seems like everyone is starting to get married. My fridge is full of invitations and save the dates. My desktop is full of links to registries….
#EndOfAnEra
In the Season One finale of Mad Men, back when the agency was just Sterling Cooper, Don Draper made an advertising pitch to Kodak for the new slide projector carousel (ironically something that…
I live in music
The other day I had a yearning, very specific in its musical nature. I wanted/needed to hear “Dance me to the End of Love,” à la Leonard Cohen when he first recorded it….
A Super Bad Hair Day
There is nothing quite like a bad hair day. You never want to HAVE to wear your hair up, right? I mean it’s one thing when your hair looks bad because of weather…
The things we do for love
Saturday afternoon finds me in a crush of people at the Brooklyn Museum, the next to last day of an exhibition already extended two weeks by popular demand. Clearly I’m not the only…
