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WHY DON’T YOU? #141
Monday: Why don’t you pop a garbage can full of popcorn and sit down on your most comfortable couch and watch Feud from beginning to end? Reader, I cannot get over this show. Never in all my days did...
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WHY DON’T YOU? #142
Monday: Why don’t you add an alert to your calendar to go and buy heavily discounted outdoor furniture at the end of the season? I am longing for benches and pergolas and fences and trellises and...
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THINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #185
LOVE: Hello Fresh: I have been hearing about these grocery boxes forever. I’ve always been intrigued but never ordered one since I like grocery shopping and have little interest in spending so much...
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Ancient Remains in English: Unexpected Leftovers from Ancient Egypt
Sorry for being so behind on my posts. If this is anything like usual, I should finish up my travel narratives sometime shortly before my next trip next summer… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I have never taken classes...
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THINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #221
LOVE: Oceans 8: For some foolish reason, Jessica doesn’t appreciate or trust my impeccable taste in films. I don’t often want to go to the movies — I don’t love being trapped in the theatre for two...
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WHY DON’T YOU? #207
4th June 1980: Diana Vreeland (1903 – 1989), French-born editor of American Vogue magazine up to 1971. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images) Monday: Why don’t you treat yourself to some new...
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MEXICO CITY: With the Prophet
When I was in Mexico City last summer, I didn’t intend to fall madly in love with a dead philosophical writer. You could have convinced me that I’d fall in love with tacos or with a museum or find...
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MEXICO CITY: The Prophecy
[I know how extraordinarily behind I am on these posts. I find it rather embarrassing. I decided to do a summary instead, just finish them off, but then the pandemic arrived. I had a trip to Europe...
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Intermission
Cut off all your hair by yourself. There’s never been a better time! I have been self-isolating for one day less than three weeks, and it has been a fascinating interlude in my life. It has given me...
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MEXICO CITY: To Cuernavaca!
Time is a slippery thing; I can’t make sense of it. The tasks I think will go on for days only take minutes and the ones that don’t need any time at all take me decades. There’s a piece of base trim...
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