Youth, passion, love, passion, travels, passion… Love.
Gray Heels
Poignant moments, shared styles – across cultures and generations.
On Meaningful and Memorable Words
On memorable stories, characters, and authors. Philip Roth, retiring at 80.
Found Letter, Twice Buried, Once Loved
Found letters. Lost loves.
Callow, Clueless, and Cruising Paris
Cruising Paris. Taking it all in. 20 years old… Advice to a younger self?
The Beauty Balm
Easing pain through beauty and appreciation.
Bittersweet
When he returns from nine months in Europe, he unpacks two boxes from his luggage and sets them on the kitchen counter. I recognize them immediately. My emotions are a jumble. Pleasure. Sadness. Suddenly, I feel older. I admit I’d hoped he might do this. Sometimes, he’s thoughtful that way, or perhaps he knows me […]
Cher Jean-Marc (Blue Shutters, Red Flowers)
Evening, September 14, 1988 Cher Jean-Marc, The jet lag has me a little foggy, but you were right about us and I wanted to tell you so. I worried that I was being naive in listening to your explanation and you tell me all the time, still, how young and trusting I am. After the […]
Men Are Insecure, Too. Make That SOME Men. Maybe.
Men, women, money. Assumptions, assumptions, assumptions.
The Splinter
It was an accident. A dropped vase. Broken, mostly in large pieces, but glass shards covered one corner of the kitchen floor. I picked up what I could by hand, careful not to cut myself, then fetched the vacuum. We’re a household that goes barefoot, so I was thorough in cleaning every inch of floor […]