Seven Things Sunday

I’ve already posted today, I know, because I wanted to share the Alaïa exhibition photos and my news about my upcoming trip to Rome before I headed out on an oh-so-early morning run with my…

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Five Things on an August Friday

1. We’re just rounding up to two weeks in our city apartment, and although it’s just a bit too small (just under 500 square feet) to live in comfortably full-time just yet (although I know…

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Have You Seen This Film? You Should!

A quick post to recommend a must-see film, Simon Curtis’s Woman in Gold, based on the true story of Maria Altmann’s efforts to recover Gustav Klimt’s portrait of her aunt from Vienna’s Belvedere Gallery. The elderly…

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How to Get a Really Quiet House…

We’ve just had the loveliest nine days of family visits. First this sweetheart brought her parents (my son and dear daughter-in-law) along for an extended weekend, and my brother and his wife dropped in for…

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Five Things Friday: A Movie, A Book, Some Tulips, and an Impending Event or Two . . .

1. I have embarked on the last big marking session of my academic career. Every attempt at complaint, I know, will be met by the reassuring reminder that “You only have x more of those…

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