Astonishingly lovely lunch today with my visiting friend from LA, the magical and gorgeous Karen Lorre at Bouley.
It’s such a sensual ritual from the moment you walk in and smell the room lined with thousands of apples through the multiple amuse-bouches right through the gifted chocolate truffles at ...
Just got back from Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore etc.) at the New York Public Library and the host –– who was both utterly charming and unbelievably insufferable –– felt compelled to read from Roland Barthes’ list of Likes and Dislikes.
I’m too windblown –– my iPhone says it feel...
At some point –- the details are irrelevant –– I stopped blogging daily after doing so for over a year and a half.
And … I found that it was about a billion times harder to write once a week then it was to write every day.
Once a week felt like everything had to be more MONUMENTAL.
More “SIGNIF...
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Perhaps my all-time favorite inspirational quote comes from Winston Churchill:
Success consists of going
from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Particularly since it sometimes feels like everyone successful was assigned a publicist at birth, crafting perfect sound bites about ...