I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. -L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables) Yesterday, while texting with a friend, I mentioned that I would like nothing more than to fall into fall. Or really, at this point in time, just to fall over, preferably into a large and comfortable bed. This…
"Don't discourage me. In my job I have to paste one fact to another with words, and in the end everything has to seem coherent even if it's not.""But if the coherence isn't there, why pretend? "To create order." -Elena Ferrante (The Story of the Lost Child) It's hard to believe now as life again…
This past summer, while having dinner with a friend and her parents, we started talking about the dishes that we would always ask our mothers to make when we were home visiting. For my friend, the answer came quite easily: spaghetti and meatballs. When it was my turn, however, I had to stop and think.…
Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. -Audrey Hepburn I know what you're thinking. Valentine's Day was two weeks ago; why…
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. -- Tobias WolffIt's been a tough week, but a worthwhile one. Sometimes you just have to take yourself in hand, ask what's working and not working and try to go about fixing it. The key word in that sentence is most definitely…
Dining with Dostoevsky 