“I have been half in love with easeful Death” John Keats
I should probably stop eating like I am a thirteen year old with absentee parents. I’m not usually like this but for some reason since I’ve been back from vacation, […]
Monthly Archives: April 2013
“Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget…” John Keats
I feel mildly better, like the jet lag is subsiding a little. Or as someone told me this morning, “I don’t think that is jet lag, I think it’s your […]
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” J.D. Salinger
I believe that you change a tiny bit after every book you read. I mean literally change who you are; grow a little or happily regress a little or sometimes […]
“Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music – do I wake or sleep?” John Keats
Jet lag is making me crazy. I have been home three days and I am totally… off. Yesterday I woke up at 4 a.m. and before 8 I had gone […]
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life” Samuel Johnson
I am tired of life. Apparently. Tips on traveling through Europe like a sophisticated adult; American: 1. Learn the language but definitely never use it or attempt to understand nuances […]
“For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.” Ernest Hemingway
I am in London until tomorrow night, when I will go down to Southampton to work for a few days. I had a lot of good intentions when I got […]
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” Rumi
So… ugly Americans? I get it now. This morning was like a very bad episode of the Amazing Race, but there was definitely no million frigging dollar prize at the […]
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust
I am in Spain with one of my cousins and two of my aunts and we are having a good time. Madrid is absolutely gorgeous, I can barely stand it. […]
“I hope you live a life you’re proud of.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
This is one of my favorite quotes, by one of my favorite authors, and I can’t get it out of my head today. “For what it’s worth: it’s never too […]
“It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.” Oscar Wilde
I’m trying to learn to take a compliment. Don’t get me wrong, I am not getting an overabundance of compliments, but when I get them, I want to be gracious […]
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