I’m not entirely sure when I first knew for sure that I was deathly, panic-inducing afraid of edges.  Could have been when I was about 7 and my indulgent brothers and sister snuck off the top of the chicken house while I was still gazing around, taking the ladder with them and left me there.  [...]

I can’t say I’ve been bored with the new releases. Smelling the new Guerlain Idylle – okay, hold up, first of all, remember when Guerlain hired Thierry Wasser as the in-house perfumer and all was going to be rainbows and unicorns?  And then we were (okay, I was) wondering whether Thierry had, like, fallen down [...]

Fall arrived with a vengeance the other day; windswept rain, almost bone-chilling temperatures, and a late afternoon sky so black and ominous it looked for all the world like dead-of-winter in early February. October has only just begun. Fortunately, I found something whimsical and fun to take my mind off the impending gloom of winter. [...]