They are precocious and curious. They are tender and bossy. I have never met a hen I haven’t liked. They are, quite honestly, my favorite animal...
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Surround Yourself in Small Beauty: A Guide for Spring
Here is what I believe will make a well-lived life for Spring...
Down the Danube with Paddy
...with my old friend Paddy. You may know him by his Christian name, Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor. Fermor was a man of wonder and once described as a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene in the New York Times.
Leafing through Summer
So, my dear Reader, if you need to escape. If you need to get away. If you need a vacation from this perilous and boring life we find ourselves in, might I make a few recommendations?
The Domestic is Telling Us Something (and Always Has Been)
In the winter, the slow burn of a domestic novel keeps me warmer much long after I put back on my nightstand...
Hunting for Relevancy: the Rise of British Sport
From the Duchess of Devonshire’s memoirs including a section on Harold Macmillan learning to shoot to the mishaps surrounding a hunting party in Mitford’s Highland Fling, I seem to have a penchant for the moorish stage on which these aristocratic endeavors are set...
Picnics: A Performance of Leisure
It is not merely a meal. It is an art...
The Yellow Gloves 