Our Christmas tradition. For fourteen years running, MTM and I have spent Christmas in Montreal. The same room at Hotel Gault, the same Christmas Eve gastronomy, and the same Christmas Day routine. For those of you wondering which one of us has family in Canada, neither of us do. Our secretContinue Reading
Greta Garbo is making news again. Sotheby’s will be auctioning a cache of Garbo private letters and photos, many of which outline her loneliness and frustration with being a female creative forced to perform what she deemed mediocre work. To honor their release, I’m reposting a story about my accidentalContinue Reading
Sometimes, I open my email and find better stories than I can weave. Here’s three generations making a memory from reader BJ McCafferty. Hi Andra, I was in the audience when you spoke at the History on Tap Series in Crandon, WI. After we met, I read all three booksContinue Reading