I imagine the success of the Beach House was largely due to the energy of these women: Grandma on the rooftop, her three daughters, and their many daughters and nieces who enjoyed the house for three generations.
Blog Posts about Travel
Sorrow-Acre
We pay the price for our many forms of immaturity—but I prefer that to what seems to be the ironclad maturity of the well-cared-for Danes.
Her Pact With the Devil
The habit of forming pacts to shape her chosen life began when Karen Blixen was standing on a granite boulder at Folehave with her younger brother Thomas, then fourteen.
No Phone No Gun
The Danes are a practical people living within the limits of a limited world.
Murder in Mississippi
I know what to expect of Rockwell’s art, or I thought I did: homey sentimental depictions of an America that no longer exists and perhaps never did.
Staying Put
I still don’t want to go anywhere but if I go I want it to be on a train.
Exquisite Aloneness
There is an avidity, even an arrogance, and a superb energy I sometimes detect in those who live alone…
Dry vs. Wet: Switzerland vs. Italy
Generalizations about countries are always questionable… yet as I reflect on my recent tour, the contrast between them seems to boil down to these qualities.
I Chose to Climb
The heroic in some form is essential to our souls.
Sleeping with Strangers
Women should not wear veils. A religion that insists on that is as culpable as a man who insists on it.