
03/06
Up, up and away
It’s true, my posts have slowed down a bit lately, as you may have noticed. But for good reason—I’m at work on a second book! It’s been keeping me so busy. (And I’m thrilled about that.) For the next two…

Yesterday I was reading about New York’s haughty hotel culture at the turn of the century, when the word ‘ritz’ became synonymous with a certain style of urbanized high life. There were ‘the ritzies,’ who often ‘ritzed’ those on the…

02/26
Bau, bau….
It’s nearly Mardi Gras already, so it’s high time that I gave a nod to the Venetian masquers of old, who eerily drift through Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. For over half the year, from early October through Lent, the nobles…
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