. . . is coming back. SIGH. After a fabulous, amazing, astonishing trip to Vienna, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Macedonia, I returned to . . . the most ridiculous frustrations. What a crazy day. Just a few highlights: I…
In the absence of news–any news, of any sort, any kind, anytime, anywhere–from the United Nations Summit, or from the inaugural Clinton Global Initiative meeting, I give you instead shameless namedropping. Friends, it’s just a citywide gabfest, stretching from the…
I was in Spain on September 11th, 2001, but everyone here talks about what a beautiful day it was in New York: bright sunshine and a brilliant blue sky. Just like today. I made my way uptown to St. Bartholomew’s,…
I’m baaaaack. My goal for blogging has always been to do it from bed, first thing in the morning or last thing at night. This requires a wireless connection. Which I now, after some 15 or 16 hours of fiddling,…
NB: This entry has been CORRECTED, thanks to a timely reminder from my friend Wendy! Inspired by tales of people who’ve been everywhere, who collect countries, even if they just zip off an airplane and touch the ground before zipping…
Let me save you $20 or so, by summarizing a promising-sounding but ultimately disappointing book, by Steve Leveen. The Little Guide to your Well-Read Life sounds so, so great to your average bookaholic. Alas, alas. Here are the contents: make…
Or is it supposed to be salonista? I digress. Last night, a dinner party, chez moi, in honor of my friend Harriet (from whose wonderful house in Ireland the photo below was taken). We were 7 at 7, or thereabouts,…
After a week at work in London, I spent a glorious weekend in Ireland, at the home of a new friend, Harriet, who lives in a pretty fantastic house overlooking the Irish Sea. This was the view from my bedroom!…
One of the great things about friends I’ve met in London, at work and beyond, has been getting to know them, their friends and families, and getting to visit in their homes–something you don’t usually get to do as a…
Spent the weekend at Dana’s in Buffalo, having an art experience with our new friend Loretta, the talented supremo of the blog called PomegranatesandPaper. We arrived on Friday afternoon, browsed a while, and, let’s face it, spent some money at,…