I myself have 12 hats, and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself? - Margaret Atwood I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough …
It’s not the tragedies that kill us, it’s the messes. – Dorothy Parker I used to be really, really organized. Really. For years I worked as a writer and editor and was pretty good at juggling the projects and the paperwork. About six years ago, my love of photography unexpectedly …
I found a bunch of my old albums the other day. Not my parents’ albums, the ones they played on the Bang & Olufsen, but some from the collection my little sister and I destroyed on our Fisher Price turntable. Every scratch made with love. But soon enough they were …
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain If there were an official fan club for The Memory Palace, I’d run for president. I’d imagine it the sort of club with card-carrying members sporting lapel pins with icons from different episodes …
Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini the entire time I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re thirty-four. – Nora Ephron My friend Peter wrote a wonderful essay for CINEASTE magazine …
Marlene Dietrich had it right when she said, “It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” I wonder if I often say it enough, how I am grateful for those 4 a.m. friends. Sometimes those 4 a.m. calls might arrive at noon on a Tuesday or …
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. - Dr. Seuss If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. - Betty Reese (TEENSY UPDATE: I’m blaming Mercury in Retrograde, Passover, Easter, …