“I’m going to make everything around me beautiful — that will be my life” – Elsie de Wolfe
It has been a while.
Summers have blossomed, islands have been explored, love has grown deeper, my hair has gotten longer, poems have been written, ideologies have loosened, continents have been crossed, freckles have formed, and life has been lived well. Golden, really. (more…)
I'm getting an early start on my summer reading list, beginning with a book I’ve read before, The Virgin Suicides. Inside my copy of the novel are treasures of travels past …
And just like that, the sweetness of summer is upon us. It's only February, but the first rose has not only budded but also bloomed. Canadian poet Robert Kroetsch, in …