Practicing what one preaches
Last night, my agent sent me an email headed “Your PW review.” Naturally, I opened it. This went against all my best intentions. The problem with reviews is that they are sometimes [...]
The final European update…and so to bed
I’m sitting in JFK after a seven-hour Virgin Atlantic flight, waiting to catch the Delta commuter plane to Richmond. I’m happy to report that at the end of my eleven-day excursion, I [...]
Update #3: A walk through Oxford
I’ve been remiss in posting updates, because I’ve gotten up every morning, had a cup of coffee, and gone off to read at some part of the Bodleian. There are seventeen Bodleian [...]
Update #2: Blois and Rouen
I’ve just spent three days wandering around French towns with my friend Elizabeth; we met up in Paris (here she is sprinting ahead of me for the Gare du Nord train station, something we did [...]
Update #1: Dover and Calais
Well, I have managed to stay up all day, after missing an entire night’s sleep on that awful trans-Atlantic flight. This is the best way to fight jet-lag–keep moving until the evening [...]