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Hope and doubt, doubt and hope Single-digit crowds of friendly misanthropes Indiscrete count Unambiguous bet My world is half-round and mostly half-flat
The act of walking is a constant sequence of losing and regaining your balance. I learned this from my physics teacher somewhere in seventh or eighth grade and I’ve kept thinking about it ever...
It was an early autumn Florentine afternoon – fragrantly warm, gloriously sunny, the air sparkling with freshness born out of yesterday’s rain. We had climbed the steep streets of Oltrarno, the...
To borrow heavily from the White Queen, sometimes I have defined happiness in as many as six different ways before breakfast. Happiness is: Sleeping in Waking up to the smell of fresh coffee...
I’ve never disliked a year enough to feel truly happy to see it go and I’ve never been able to master too much enthusiasm for a new one on day one. January 1st falling on a Sunday, my least...
Loving autumn did not come easily to me. As far back as I can remember, for me there was only one unquestionable definition of the good life – summer, sunshine, beach time. I grew up in a small...
Such a beautiful morning for a run. Cloudy and quiet, the only sound that of crickets singing in overdrive. The approaching rain did not feel as close as it turned out to be. The first cool...
August is like that peach syrup I remember from my childhood. A neighbor had made some from the peaches in her garden and treated me to an unforgettable glass of it. And so this is how I always...
“In his second year, Leo decided, after mature reflection, that it was a lion’s duty to roar. He was not awfully sure how to go about it, so he would retire to quiet corners of his cage and...
{Source: http://www.roadcycling.com Photo: Fotoreporter Sirotti.} As I was watching the Tour de France team time trials earlier today, I kept thinking the stage offered great lessons for any...
Woody Allen and I go a few years back. He may not be quite aware of it but we’ve shared memorable European experiences. It all started with Vicky Christina Barcelona. I saw it around the...
Being a beer connoisseur has long gone mainstream. Just like I do with wine, I tend to be completely satisfied with just loving it, without having to know all that much about it. After all, I hail...
“In a language we understand, we have replaced opacity of sound by transparency of idea” ~Marcel Proust A few months ago, I wrote a guest blog post for EURO RSCG’s blog. The staffs of EURO RSCG...
Imagine a world full of people who never cut each other off in traffic, never engage in improper relationships that involve [Cuban?] cigars, and never advise the penniless and hungry to eat gourmet...
The first minutes of my morning run are always tender and uncertain as I find my pace and assess if this will be a day I’ll by running effortlessly or not so much. The answer to this question...
Stones have always been a source of attraction and mystique for me. When I was very young, a friend told me that in its original form, a talisman was a stone with a hole in it. At that age, I...
In my book, Friday night is sure to deliver on at least one promise – two mornings of optional sleeping in. It also arrives tastelessly mouthfull of unsubstantiated expectations about the...
The way our crazy cat Skitter naps: An Italian dog’s ride: Cat-ladder spotted in Florence: Imaginative way to store a bike: Street name:
Have you heard of Trieste – the presently Italian town of formerly Austro-Hungarian origins that enjoyed a short stint as an independent city state after World War II? The New York Times ran a...
If I believed that when writing “The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter” Linda Grant had one single purpose in mind – to liberate us from...
Tonight, I am going through some old notes from a trip to Santiago, Chile. It was January of 2009. I stole a couple of hours from my busy schedule to visit an exhibit called “Frida y Diego: Vidas...
Trivial: Water falling from the sky Poetic: The sun is taking a shower behind a curtain of clouds Mathematical: Necessary but not sufficient condition for the birth of a rainbow Metaphorical: Snow...
