To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. ~ Hans Christian Anderson “Images last for ever, our minds…
“A person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.” —Honoré de Balzac, 1830 ~~~~~ Above ~ Galen Rogers, Anya Rome, Cherie Porter, rehearsal… Above ~ At Davis Sais Salon in Oakland ~…
“What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.” ~ Miuccia Prada ~~~~~ Clothes have been my world, formally for the past…
“When in doubt wear RED.” ~ Bill Blass “All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with…
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard These were the words from one of the many quotes that were both spoken and written in Laurie Anderson’s beautiful, mesmerizing,…
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Here are two articles ~ the first on cocktails, the second on clothes ~ that I wrote earlier…
“Happiness is the longing for repetition.” ~ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984 I love the balance of repetition and novelty. Below are a trio of writings that hint at this balance ~ the…
“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution….
“one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well…” ~ virginia woolf ~~~~~~~ Above ~ “RED” #1, Feb 18th 2012 ~ Deb Durant, Heike Liss, Beth Ann McFadden, myself, Christopher Willits,…
I love goals ~ end of the year, mid-year, whenever. They propel me forward; and sometimes one needs this type of motivation… When I began this blog in May of 2014, I knew that I wanted…
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ~ Benjamin Franklin I came to cooking by getting involved. I would be in a specific place, and someone would…
“there is always an emotional element to anything you make.” ~ oscar de la renta ~~~~~ the things we love are always emotional. whether people, places, or yes, the things we make by hand or…
