"We should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh" - Friedrich Nietzsche

The problem with false economies is that theyre just that...things that seem prudent at the time...yet come back, when you least expect it, pointing fingers and saying "I told you so". Case in...

"We traveled literally over 10,000 miles by car...looking at places" - Rick Hoffman

"He could raise dry land from the rivers, and turn the deserts into bottomless oceans. He could appoint a worm as king, and reduce an army to ashes." - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

A drought in posting...such as the one that is currently blighting this blog...can usually be attributed to excessive quantities of work...or travel...or work-related travel. All of which are a...

"Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time." - Winston Churchill

Item of lust...a 1950s triple link chain bracelet made from 18k gold. Item of reality...a rectangular stretch bracelet from Topshop. Savings...$10,475.

"Fake Tales of San Francisco...Echo through the room" - Arctic Monkeys

Or...to be completely accurate...San Francisco and Sausalito...

"The sun has gone to bed and so must I" - Gretl, The Sound of Music

Summer...though not officially over…has been given the obligatory handshake and accompanying verbal brush-off “it’s been fun, let’s make plans to get together next year” that is Labor Day. So far...

"Chintz, it could rightly be said, is the basic black dress of the English-style interior" - Suzanne Slesin

As a testament to the fact that my craft projects are taking so long that I almost forget having started them, the seemingly simple task of making a few lavender bags is a pretty reliable...

"Adorned with cape, with tricorn, saintly soul singing in librarian tones an enameled song that coolly celebrates her chewing-gum enthusiasms" - Truman Capote

Mid-August...seems about the right time to redouble my bitching regarding the heat, humidity, and general sticky-icky-ness that is becoming more insufferable every day (I know, I know...Im a...

"And one day God might come on back...With a summer tan and a Cadillac" - Christine Anderson

At the beginning of every summer...in that epicenter of the storm...my "minds eye"...I imagine a season of outfits in which I will be crisp and cool...calm in the heat and humidity. The fact that,...

"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns" - Marshall McLuhan

Two words that you don’t want to find staring up at you from your inbox (especially when, pressed for time , you’re just trying to find anything urgent that you have to take care of)...”statement”...

"A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone" - Francis Picabia

Like me, you may have had a yen to jump on the sonic skincare bandwagon and buy Olays very wallet-friendly cleansing system...wanting, for once, to be frugal. Like me, you may have found this to be...

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." - Sam Keen

Summer, or so they say, is a time for laziness...I find this especially true when faced with the prospect of working on a day when the temperatures are in the mid-90s with depressingly high...

"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity" - unknown

Number two in the series...things to do with fruit when you cant face another piece in regular fruit form...and have no intention of dying of heat stroke by turning on the oven. Thats right, its...

"If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?" - Erma Bombeck

When life hands you lemons (according to those pesky do-gooders), you make lemonade. When life hands you temperatures over 100 degrees...and a fridge full of fruit...you spend some time curled up...

"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know Im right" - Moliere

Well, as long as weve got that sorted out...

"The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows..." - William Cullen Bryant

You know that youre a city girl...with a country background...when the sight of bunches of lavender for sale in your local grocery store causes you to stand squealing with glee in aisle seven. For,...

"“Burn the pen, and burn the ink; burn the paper as well. Burn the writer who writes in the love of duality." - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

If...big if...stupendous if...the sort of if that is usually followed by "I was rich/royal/insert something thats never going to happen here. "If", I say...Phoebe Philo were to design a notebook, I...

"The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesnt belong to anyone, ever" - unknown

I realize that theres a certain amount of despair-inducing angst involved with determining which black bag is your black bag on the airport carousel...the later in the day...the more you long for...

"Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins rememberd." - William Shakespeare

After a few weeks of, admittedly rather unscientific study, I think I can claim that the only reason to cough up the sum required to buy US Vogue, Elle, or Bazaar is the question (to bastardize the...

"Too bad you cant buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out." - Jack Handy

Life being a tad hectic at the moment, shopping...as a purposeful activity as opposed to a pleasurable pursuit...is limited to rapid-fire online forays...generally at obscure hours of the day. The...