The first thing that catches my eye is everything. Sparkles, shiny silks, textured tulle and ribbons swirling from skirts, tiaras, scepters, it is a castle of dolls and clothing and pretty. We are in the Princess souvenir store at Disneyland. There are girls clustered around displays like brown rabbits in a flower garden, scruffy and [...]
I have lived in 8 of the 50 states in the United States of America. I have visited 36 more. I have only 6 left to explore and then I can share an anecdote from the home state of any guest, at any cocktail party, from sea to shining sea. I am proud of what [...]
Note to readers: a bit of confusion this morning - so you get to enjoy the rhetorical post below and the intended playlist here - Bonus Thursday!
Summer is like living in a Hayao Miyazaki film.
Billowing clouds, sky that fades from blue to purple to red to white gold, green leaves flickering in every shade, raindrops that [...]
I am reading a book about a human who falls in love with a vampire. It is summer novel, wonderfully trashy with page after page of “should I?” or “shouldn’t I?” plucked like petals in endless dilemmas. The vampire is cold and beautiful. The girl is soft and spunky. Their relationship somehow transcends triteness under [...]
I went on a river tour this weekend in Chicago. I listened to the names of the architects, learned the differences between art deco, post modern, neoclassical, buildings referential to their surroundings and those not, anecdotes of moguls who wanted to sit higher and see farther than their competition. Yet in the end, all that [...]