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The Inspiration Project: Holly Hagan, New York
Holly Hagan is working on a memoir titled Near Life Experience. Originally from central Ohio, she has called New York home for ten years. Every weekday at 1:00pm, I steal a precious hour of company time to find an empty … Continue reading
Heart on My Sleeve
“I’ve Got the World on A String” has been in my head all day. Except I’ve been unintentionally replacing “I’ve got the world on a string” with “I’ve got my heart on my sleeve.” You know, sometimes nothing goes well. … Continue reading
Kiss Me When I Wake
We all have talents. Some of you are marvelous dancers, some of you cook, quite a few of you are brilliant writers. . . it could make a girl feel a little low, to tell you the truth. In those … Continue reading
The Inspiration Project: Allison Gehlhaus, Rumson, NJ
Allison Gehlhaus lives in Rumson, New Jersey. When she is not staring out her window, or mothering her five children, she is writing a memoir. My Inspiration: Books. They inspire me. Always have. That feeling when I read a certain … Continue reading
Bitten Deep
A last attempt: the language is a dialect called metaphor. These images go unglossed: hair, glacier, flashlight. When I think of a landscape I am thinking of a time. When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever. I … Continue reading
Greetings from Paradise
Mes chères, I am a little more than halfway through my Italian adventure and have reached that inevitable point where my heart begins a descent to my stomach for the dread of departure is dawning. I can’t escape the hyperbole … Continue reading
Basically
Guys, I made it. I am at JFK. I am going to board a plane and go to Italy and who knows, maybe I won’t even come back! Ok, I am totally coming back. . . unless I can talk … Continue reading
Will I Be Pretty? Will I Be Rich?
Que Sera is in heavy rotation on my internal radio station. Yes, the Doris Day song. I keep waiting for something cooler, like Cloud Cult (currently holding onto the number two slot on Sariah’s Random 40) to overtake it; at … Continue reading
Remember the interview with Elizabeth Perrin? You can now see even more of her gorgeous photos at her new blog, Perrin’s Pix.
Clowns for the Cuties
Dolls, it’s a proverbial rollercoaster ’round these parts. Maybe you’ve noticed that my personality runs slightly manic. If you have great news I’ll be the loudest cheerleader, share your bad news and I’ll cry with you, tell me about the … Continue reading
Chantons-nous sous la pluie!
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg is one of my touchstone films. Burberry’s fine and good, but no one has done more for the simple trench than Catherine Deneuve as Geneviève. I’ll warn you that the entire script is sung, so if … Continue reading
Recommendation: Lit Life
Elle has a pretty terrific new blog, Lit Life. I particularly enjoyed this interview with Joshua Ferris and Amy Bloom reminiscing about her childhood love of Superman comics.
Running Just as Fast as We Can
Let’s get two things straight: First, field day participation was mandatory. I signed up for the shotput because it didn’t involve running. (I’m still not sure what a shotput is; it’s heavy and you throw it. Like bowling without shared … Continue reading
The Yell Softly Questions: Jude Polotan
Dudes, my brain is fried. So fried I am talking like Spicoli and then thinking broccoli and then broccoli makes me think of trees and then did you know that the maple leaf is on the Canadian flag and that I … Continue reading
Something New: The Yell Softly Questions: Aaryn Belfer
My head is currently clamped between the couch’s armrest and my left fist. It’s the most comfortable I’ve been all day. I have an epic migraine so I am going to apologize right now for any typos, misspellings, stupid jokes, … Continue reading
What I Am Trying to Tell You
An actor from one of my favourite movies lives a few blocks away. I see him at the grocery store in ratty sweats and a wool hat, remember that I loved him in Angels in America, and hand him … Continue reading
Light Breaks the Darkness: An Interview with Rania Matar, Part 2
(Read Part 1 of the interview) Recently, Rania turned her lens to that most personal of spaces: the teenage girl’s bedroom. Like her photographs of the Middle East, these photographs capture metamorphoses. Remarkably individual, defiant yet unsure, each girl shares … Continue reading
Kick Up Your Heels
Chorus girls: so scandalous and so fantastic. The costumes, the dancing, the glamour, the flirtation. Chorus girls are naughtier than ballerinas but primmer than strippers. From the Rockettes to Vegas showgirls to Moulin Rouge, “chorus girl” suggests striving for a … Continue reading
