Braque meets beach – the perfect angle from which to imagine learning how to scuba dive (number one on my bucket list). So as I spend this soggy day thinking of sunny skill building, I escape to La… Read More
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Dogged devotion
My feisty dog, aka my spirit animal, turns six today, so in honor of her, a dog days destination: in Cottonwood, Idaho (population 900), the Dog Bark Park Inn (say that 10 times quickly) boasts the world’s one and only bed and breakfast inside… Read More
Pony up
Once upon a time, in a faraway land (Manhattan), there was a four-story-tall Puppy with a pelt of flowers who sit-stayed all summer in Rockfeller Center. People loved Puppy and Puppy loved people, but it took another… Read More
Midnight oil
Richard Wilson has built his career on masterful mischief and impossible installations: he carved a circle from a concrete building, tilting it open like a window; he scrunched the corner of the London School of Economics into a stone tumble; he sliced a ship… Read More
Pair of hearts
In honor of my dad: the land he loves with its signature heart-shaped oak grove and the sculptural ring he gave me for my high school graduation.… Read More
Long form
While making my summer reading list, I stumbled upon the Long Room, an 18th century jewel at Trinity College Dublin. Stretching some 215 feet in length, the barrel-vaulted reading room stocks the 200,000 oldest tomes in the library, an exclusive list considering the library… Read More
Over the coals
Iowa stands in good stead vis-à-vis the new federal goal to significantly cut power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions by 2030; already, the Hawkeye State has curbed its carbon emissions by shifting from coal to wind power. To applaud Iowa’s… Read More
Fez perfection
Twenty-five craftsmen spent two years resuscitating a 600-year-old residence in the ancient medina of Fez, Morocco, a painstaking labor of love led by husband and wife Iraqi architect Alaa Said and Norwegian graphic designer Kate Kvalvik. The result: The Dar Seffarine guesthouse, a seven-room showpiece… Read More
Sink or swim
This is where the bikini made its debut in 1946. For decades, this is where Paris has gone to loosen up (its swimsuit strings). This is the ultimate pool party. Modeled after an ocean liner, Piscine Molitor opened as a public swimming pool in… Read More
Sea level
And so summer begins. The brimming season. In my mountain town, summer brings a frenzy of work and play, strangers and friends. This scene, set at an art-oriented resort on the Italian toe, reminds me to be serene, to… Read More
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