1. I love words - listing them, defining them, rolling them around in my mouth. When I was little I’d lie in bed at night and repeat different words until their meanings became ambiguous and only the sounds remained.
2. There are very few situations a square of dark chocolate won’t improve; none that an entire bar won’t cure (at least momentarily.)
3. My first year of marriage was harder than I expected. This has nothing to do with love or commitment and everything to do with two stubborn, opinionated people trying to learn humility.
Photo by Patrick Demarchelier
4. An early edition of Emily Post’s Etiquette is one of my most prized possessions.
5. When perusing a perfume shop, I firmly believe you shouldn’t leave until you’ve spritzed something fabulous on every inch of exposed skin (and any bits you can spray without being indecent. Unless the scent is really amazing, in which case you’re really better off unbuttoning a few more buttons and dousing your cleavage.)
6. The guiding question for my sartorial and gourmet quandaries: “What would Nanny (my grandmother) do?”
7. Golden Rule: Do unto others as you’d have them do unto you. Platinum Rule: True friends delete and/or rip up unflattering photos of one another.
8. I only have two iron-clad goals: Live in France. Have a library with books from floor to ceiling, a ladder that rolls from wall to wall, and a worn-leather chaise lounge.
9. I don’t know what the secret to happiness is, but I think it might have something to do with lazy Saturday mornings spent listening to someone you love sing Stylistics songs while he makes you oatmeal.
10. I don’t think you’ll ever be wrong in being grateful.
And now, to tag my favourite bloggers:
Great post Sariah, you must invite me over for dark chocolate on your worn leather chaise in your Library in France, we can be bulls together in chocolate/book heaven x
Yes! Helen, you have given me even greater incentive to make this a reality. In the meantime, I have a chaise in Brooklyn reserved for you. xo
I love this post Miss Sariah!
Your list of 10 is totally you. I might add whenever I see apples I think of you. In my mind, you spent grades 5-10 in your room reading books and eating apples.
THanks for the shout-out SAriah, I will do this, it just make take me a bit. Loved hearing your ten. Am daunted. Will get to it.