More Portland, Before Rome
In preparation for my two weeks in Rome, I’ve begun reading a book I picked up at the marvelous Powell’s Books in Portland (in case you’re interested in what else I’ve been reading lately, I’ve…
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Portland! What a (road) Trip!
Our drive in on Sunday seems to have used up the last of the area’s sunshine. . . . it was a beautiful welcome! I imported these photos into Blogger last night (so pleased my…
View PostPlaying Hooky as Christmas Approaches . . .
Another passage from Karl Olve Knausgaard’s A Man in Love (the 2nd volume of his My Struggle series) illustrates some of that gradual fading we observe of the intensity of a time away from home, the remembered…
View PostPlanning Visits to Art Exhibitions in Paris, e.g. Vigée Le Brun at Grand Palais
Lovely as serendipity can be (I’ve also written about Serendipity in travel-planning here), we don’t rely completely on its charms when we travel. Generally, I scope out can’t-miss exhibitions or concerts before we fly; sometimes,…
View PostFoggy Thoughts from the Margins
You might well be wearying of my consideration of the liminal space, or spaces, I perceive myself occupying these days. I’d be the first to acknowledge that it’s a privileged Liminality, particularly now when so…
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