The first day in Europe is always a bit of a fog – the way it works on my East Coast flight is, we leave here around 7pm and get there at 7am – only of course for me it’s 1am or thereabouts, and I’m not good at sleeping on the flight. I drop my [...]
The mind does show signs of going: I was prowling through my perfumes, lingering over the Histoires de Parfums Tubereuse 3 Animale and thinking – Did I write a review on this? And if I didn’t, why didn’t I? Top notes of tuberose, neroli, and kumquat; a heart of tuberose, aromatics, and plum; and [...]
Housekeeping details – in the move to the new blog host on May 1-ish, we lost about 30 hours of blog posting, including Patty’s Winners post with all the great haircolor comments on there (which bums me out), and the tail end of the Dune comments and my responses. I haven’t given up entirely, but [...]
Happy Mother’s Day, those of you who partake. Those of you with mothers. Those of you who are mothers — in all senses of the word… I’m enjoying the freakishly cold weather here in D.C. again, playing with the sprogs, and going to Diva’s belly dancing concert later. Anyone get or give any good loot [...]
It’s election night and the buffet’s all lined up, even though it’s a love/hate thing for me. My stupid elbow is on a slow recovery route and that means limited extra-curricular typing (can’t do much about my actual workload though, eh?). I thought I’d share a couple of thoughts with you. Current garden highlights: It’s [...]