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photo story/ borghese hermaphroditus
The Louvre was enormous and impossible to navigate. My brother held the map and led us to the main attractions: The Mona Lisa, St. Mary Magdalene, Venus de Milo. We passed Sleeping Hermaphroditos by...
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thirty-two weeks gone.
This is the last time I’ll write one of these. In five days I leave Scotland for the next big thing, the next weird adventure. I’m not quite ready to announce what that is, but in some ways it’s safer...
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these three things/ artists in montmartre.
photographs taken in Montmartre, Paris, France with a Minolta X-700
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broke down.
The bus from Palm Springs to downtown LA broke down in a tiny, nameless desert town. Nobody spoke English. The bus driver didn’t speak English. The man sitting next to me—an overjoyed, perpetually...
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roman candles.
…the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but...
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on leaving a place.
I’ve left many places. When I was eighteen, I left my home for the first time. I went to a small school on the shores of Massachusetts. Four months later I left that place and I went to another...
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hit & run.
My mother ran my father over when I was nine or ten years old. I was in the backseat at the time and I remember the unmistakably bump of car-over-body and for a moment it was almost worse—the car kept...
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paper flowers.
photographs taken in Saratoga Springs, New York with a Canon 60D. model & crafter of those lovely paper flowers: Megan. & she sells them, too! see her website or leave a comment with your...
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the loveliest wall i’ve ever seen.
Megan stands in front of a beautiful vine-covered wall in Saratoga Springs, New York. photograph taken with a Canon 60D.
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the first sentence.
I lived in New York for four years and never really fell in love with it. There are parts I love, sure, like the Bethesda Fountain and the three archways under the terrace in Central Park. The...
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hello, LA.
I got into Los Angeles last night for what will be an extended summer stay. I’ll write more soon about my recent travels, but until then enjoy this amazing gif Amanda made of me. She took the footage...
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memorial day.
I’ve been sick and traveling and now I’m still sick but finally stationary and jet-lagged, the kind that wakes you up out of the blue at 5 in the morning, the kind that sends you to bed before 10. It...
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downtown dreams.
This weekend S and I met up with friends for brunch in downtown LA. I’ve only ever dipped in and out of that area and so have never really gotten a feel for it. After brunch we were able to walk...
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on remembering.
I don’t have a good memory. I mean—it doesn’t behave. But maybe I’m being too hard on myself. Maybe that’s typical of everyone’s memory. We forget the important moments. We forget the things we want...
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some kind of warmth.
Amanda picked me up early yesterday morning and we set out with a full agenda (take photos for my book jacket, talk over possible revisions for our manuscript, catch up on each other’s lives, etc)...
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taking pictures.
I’ve been to Venice twice before and never with S, so on Saturday we headed down to the beach and walked around in the sunshine. Then Sunday morning we went to breakfast in Santa Monica and the...
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these three things/ temescal canyon
photographs taken with a Canon 60D in Temescal Canyon Gateway Park
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headshot.
I hate being in front of the camera—and not like those people who say they hate being in front of the camera and then strike a dramatic pose whenever the opportunity arises. I mean—I really hate it....
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