New York is so meta. Everything in New York is something that someone is taking a picture of while someone else is filming the photographer for the making-of movie of the shoot while people passersby take instant snaps for Instagram so they can testify on Twitter. Then someone else will include that picture in their Favorite Things of the Week on a (Read More)
remember…
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
{I called this photograph Remember When You Said Yes? because it felt like a memory to me when I took it. And a good one memory, too. Look at those two. I wish you all a sweet V-Day}
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{ yes, please! } taller puntera
Bought a luscious red notepad from them and I’m rather excited to get one of those orange case for my new glasses. It’s a rather perfect shop to buy gifts for anyone, no matter how picky, young or old. (Read More)
recuerdo toledo
Toledo. Last December I took a one-day trip to Toledo while I was visiting friends in Madrid for Christmas. This little town on the Tajo River is one of my favorite places in the world. I love the quality of the light, which is that way all throughout the region {Castilla La Mancha}. (Read More)
that special someone
Friends,
Valentine’s Day is one of those celebrations that seem to polarize people. Either you start planning for it a week ahead (I consider that a lot of planning, OK?) or you try hard to ignore it and then when the day comes you end up binge-eating the pound of chocolate you bought yourself (Radical Self-Love is a movement, haven’t you heard?).
So (Read More)
a moveable feast
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” – Ernest Hemingway, 1950 (Read More)
“go toward the light always, be without ships.”
Carolyn Forche’s poem, The Lightkeeper and goose bumps (Read More)
frozen in time
When I was a child, my mother worked as a seamstress. It was a fast-track to self-employment in Haiti. When she began studying the sewing course, she made patterns at home out of recycled paper and I thought they were the most enchanting things. It was probably just the novelty of seeing a perfect dress made out of paper. My mother is somewhat of a perfectionist (Read More)
please don’t stop the rain
I thought that time was on our side I’ve put in far too many years
To let this pass us by
You see life is a crazy thing
There’ll be good time and there’ll be bad times
And everything in between
And I don’t know which way it’s gonna go
If it’s gonna be a rainy day
There’s nothing we can do to make it change
We can pray for sunny weather
But that (Read More)
mod
Nothing brightens the day like a pair of orange tights. I felt self-conscious about buying these and then I realized that what I’m wearing is probably the least consequential part of me. I could dither over a lot of things but I think we harm no one by drawing outside the color lines…
I’ve been long, a long way from here
Put on a poncho, played for mosquitos,
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biking with flowers
A few days ago, I played Mr. Rogers and got to know some folks from my neighborhood. I got to know Helen. Helen lives in Columbia Heights. She’s a native Washingtonian. I meet so few people who are native Washingtonians. It seems everyone comes to this city to get into politics or somewhere near it. Because the political dominates the professional (Read More)
innovActor grace coddington
The September Issue chronicles how the magazine prepares the most important issue of the year. Grace Coddington who has been working at Vogue for over 30 years is a creative director. (Read More)
