The cards made me go outside this morning to mail them or I wouldn’t have found the unexpected Amazon box on the step. It had rained and the box was so soaked, it dissolved in my hands as I carried it to the kitchen sink. Inside was a dry green cloth bag the cats will love, ...
With the clocks going back it certainly does feel as if we have extra time to do stuff today. Not that I have anything on the agenda. Problem is I have a lot of spare time all the time. I am sort of getting going on the book but need to double down on this. Maybe this week i...
For a long time now I have been opening two Paul John bottles at once. One peated and one unpeated, once a mix of both. Very often single cask offerings, simply because they interest me the most and beauty lies in the details. As far as know, all the single cask offerings I came ...
When Mary and Abraham Lincoln moved into the White House in 1861, Mary was 42 years old, a time when women her age dressed in somber grays, dull browns, and boring blues. But not Mary Todd Lincoln. For her, expensive clothes were a mark of importance, of breeding. She proceeded to dr...
Not songs, but little phrases: “Have you not seen your father?”— even though her father is in Russia. As she grows more obsessed with the House, parts of her current life seem to slip away. Things in her apartment are moved. She takes a seat in a cafe and the waiters all ...
“Now, the silence is over. I don’t hesitate to answer questions about my family. I have photographs of Ben Siegel in my home in Santa Fe, NM, just as my father did. Every few months I get e-mails from distant friends, or people who knew my dad. ...
“I’m going to water the flowers, mom!” “Jesus H. Christ, you get right back in here. Don’t you lie to your mother!” “URG. MOM. I’M JUST TRYING TO HAVE FUN BEFORE MY INEVITABLE DEATH. GOD.” Anyways. Lets talk about titties. I can’t offer much of an explanation. Whi...
Kevin McCarthy, who had a much smaller role, was also a participant in the Actors’ Studio as well, and he and Montgomery Clift had attended at the same time. So, while there may have been warning signs of impending trouble, there were also potential omens of success and camaraderie. ...
the green and howl and pulse and bloom. It's not that I can'thavechildren, it's that I already do. Yes. We use our mothering energy in all kinds of ways, whether it’s with pets, partners, parents, friends, students, or through volunteer work. We use it with the flowers we nurt...
I would have been five years old and not quite au fait with all the ins and outs of the political milieu, but I remember the flailing distraught of childhood – that hot feeling in your head when it seems like everything has gone irrevocably wrong and you’re too ill-equipped to deal ...