I’m taking a break from having just spent a lot of money on plane tickets to Portland, OR for a wedding this summer. It’s going to be a spendy trip, but it’s my favorite U.S. city (besides New York, of course) and I already see my life heading in a direction that incorporates way less [...]

My weekend was something like this hallway, a shadowy-but-bright, under construction, secreted away wonder. Toward the end of the week, spring finally peeked out from behind weeks of bitter cold, and the sun settled in for a day or two at its old job. I ate bread from a wood-fired oven and explored New England [...]