Month: July 2025
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Back Home
I’m standing in the house where I first knew the world. The walls feel the same.The ground holds me like it remembers my weight. It hits me somewhere between the front steps and the kitchen light—this quiet feeling, soft as…
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The Scale of Indifference
The original Hermès Birkin bag just sold at auction for $10 million. When I saw the headline, while reading the news at 3 am due to being jet lagged- I had the urge to write about it.Because it reveals something…
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Over the Moon
I will post more tomorrow, but today I am, as always, jet lagged when I arrive home. Isn’t this a lovely mirror! Of course I found it at the Brocante, I didn’t need it, but it was just too good…
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Over to the Other Side…Going Home
Back to California, I would have never believed that I would have lived longer in France, than I ever lived in the States—which still feels odd, even now. But California I call home. That’s just what it is. I’m going…
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The French Baguette
In France, it’s not a baguette.It’s the baguette.Sacred. Daily. Ritual.Crunch. A baguette isn’t bought.It’s chosen.Some like them bien cuite—dark, crusty.Others say pas trop cuite—soft shell, pale.The baker nods.They know. And yes.The first thing you do—when you walk out of the bakery—is pinch off the…