In the summer of 2021, I experienced a cluster of coincidences, some of which had a distinctly supernatural feel. Here’s how it started. I keep a journal, and record dreams if they are especially vivid or strange. It doesn’t happen often, but I logged one in which my mother’s oldest friend, a woman called Rose, made an appearance to tell me that she (Rose) had just died.
My day at Versailles was one of the prettiest days of my life. I personally went in knowing I would experience over-the top opulence, but I had no idea how beautiful the grounds of the palace were. I spent hours wandering alone through the forest and fields, sitting in the grass and reading, just like in the Sofia Coppola edition of Marie Antoinette. It was a dream.
Driving offers some compensating advantages over mass transit, of course, including a greater sense of autonomy and control. But one of the seeming conveniences of driving—that getting from home to work doesn’t force you to walk any farther than from your kitchen to your garage at one end, and from your employer’s parking lot to your desk at the other—isn’t a benefit. It’s a liability.
This week’s ’s 30 Images of Inspiration nearly didn’t happen due to technical difficulties, but happily, all’s well that ends well, and so,...
Empathy is hot in business wisdom these days: Forbes says it’sinvaluable, Apple’s training manual offers empathy exercises, and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson calls caring “key.”
With a smile on his face, author Stephen Witt told me that before publishing his first book, "There was no mention anywhere that the only reason the MP3 succeeded as a technology was because of the greatest wave of copyright infringement and piracy that the world had ever seen." MP3s are as ubiquitous as music itself, but have we ever really asked ourselves how this new technology came to be so universal, or who exactly was responsible for its pandemic spread, which crippled the music industry at large?
As promised, the second part to our two-part series — more beautiful work by Emily Faulstich, including the romantic shots...
THIS MORNING BEGAN true to Monday form, with hackers targeting one of our writer’s, Victoria‘s, account to post spam...
On Instagram there are glimpses of this past weekend, with lattes & peanut butter brownies, and also, a fair bit...
Just in time for the Easter Long Weekend, here’s a fun & super-easy idea for hand-painted Easter eggs I made...
THIS WEEKEND WAS late nights and long kisses, Sunday morning over coffee and the paper and deep conversations about life and Hunter S Thompson’s...
IT IS A RAINY DAY today, but happily only began after our lunch date, and after coffee at a new...
