The Sketch Book
December. All Roads Lead To Bergdorfs
If you haven't noticed by now, my 2015 calendar was subtly inspired by New York City. It was produced by one of the oldest stationers in the city, Dempsey & Carroll, and was painted in my old...
Read moreRobert Frost begins a poem about this month, "O Hushed October morning mild" just as today began in the city, with a pearly gray sky and the gentle coolness we've been waiting for. The new season ...
Read moreDo you remember the 21st night of September.... Rejoice! We have shifted through time to the best song-month of the year! Gone are the sandy, sun bleached idol hours of August set to the rhythm ...
Read moreAugust: Everything and Nothing
Oh August! A month that, for me, always inspires a confusing mix of wanderlust and also laziness. The victory lap of summer. The final hurrah of doing nothing and being bored and barefoot, but wi...
Read moreJuly 2015 as seen through an art historical gaze: Margo the Land Mermaid
Margo By The Water, Portrait of a Young Woman circa 2015 - watercolor on paper, artist unknown A painting that has long been called the iconic image of a time in American history and culture kno...
Read moreJune 2015: drink rosemary vodka, do the splits
Meet Clementine, the June Calendar Girl. Clementine maintains a perfect complexion, utterly unmarred by the harsh rays of the sun. She's rarely caught before sundown without one of her signature...
Read moreWelcome to May. And welcome, also, to one of my favorite weeks of the year. A week which combines opportunities to celebrate two completely distinct cultural phenomenons that are each spectacu...
Read moreApril Calendar Girl 2015: A story blooms in the west village
Close your eyes. Call on your darkened imagination to summon the remembered sounds of a spring rain. The first elastic drops echoing off newly minted leaves and grass, the sounds gradually grow...
Read moremarch calendar girls - worlds collide
Ok, it's time to set the record straight. Because I know you're all tied up in knots trying to figure out what I'm doing with the whole Daphne thing. Is she real? Is she not real? Do I have m...
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