biography
The Tasting Room Will Be Televised
"Memories...light the corners of my mind...misty watercolor memories...of the way we were..." -- Barbra Streisand
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

Sympathy's Requiem
“No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else” -- Goethe

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
Train of Thought
For a dork like me, who gets completely geeked out over nostalgia, I am likewise geeked about absurdity.
I'm Every Woman
"Anything you want done, baby, I'll do it naturally." -- Chaka Khan and/or Whitney Houston

Sweet Relief
A positive development in the migraine saga, big mom feelings, and other goodies.