My Roommate, Claude Monet, 6am, Saturday

Me: What the hell are you doing, Claude? It’s 6am! Claude: Ze light on ze hedges! She is, how you zay? Ztunning! Ah am eeeenspired! Me: Claude, jeezus. Go back to Giverney, wouljda? (Walking away muttering.) Claude: (Enthusing in French about the light, then turning to me) You are a philistine. All you Americaines are …


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Preview: Flying, Confessions of a Free Woman

We hit stop on the DVD player about 10 minutes in to the second episode of Jennifer Fox’s Flying, Confessions of a Free Woman. The documentary filmmaker had just said, in the voice over, that she’d spent 20 years in therapy working on – what exactly? I can’t remember right now. What was clear at …


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Travel on BlogHer

I’ve been doing some interviews for my travel posts over on BlogHer. A couple of days ago I talked with Ross Borden of Matador Travel – that’s here. And earlier in April I talked with Mary Sanderson from American Airlines about their new women-focused presence on the web. That’s here. I’ve got two more interviews …


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Scallops with Grudge

I would like to think that I am the kind of person who does not hold a grudge, but I am finding that not to be the case. I feel a certain sense of indignation, though I’m too sheepish about it to feel righteous indignation. “Jeezus,” I exclaimed, while sticking a fork in my seared …


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What Would Jesus Subscribe To?

Update: We know who was responsible for this and have sufficient evidence to prove it. A police report has been filed. The very nice officer informed me that this is actually quite a serious crime as it’s not only harassment at this scale, but mail fraud, which is punishable by quite a long stint in …


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