“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.” – Santayana, Epigraph to M.F.K. Fisher’s, The Gastronomical Me There are times in life that bring you back to where you started. Years ago, I wanted to write about food rather than…
Inspiration
What’s so wonderful about Big Magic
It’s been ten years since I’ve written creatively. I used to happily write for my college newspaper and in many a travel journal, but in each instance it was easy and relatively stress-free because I knew who my audience was. Students and myself. Fast forward to a decade in law firms and the daily pressures…
Coffee and Journals in Paris
My favorite scene in the Sabrina remake is when Fanny Ardant says in her sumptuous French accent to the young and uncertain Sabrina: “For eight months– no, more than that– a year… I sat in a cafe, I drank coffee… and I wrote nonsense in a journal. And then, somehow… it was not nonsense. I…