Corks and Caftans

  I’m pretty into being 31. I was super into being 30. There isn’t much I have to gripe about that is age-related. However, the absence of something does not always infer the bounty of its polar point: I’m not exactly celebrating things like not having 23-year-old eye skin anymore, or rejoicing that I’m losing [...]

I know one thing for sure: Rob Burden was made for me.

[The porch next door.] You can choose how close—or how separated—you are with your neighbors. That’s the funny thing about living in a place like the Fan: win, lose, or draw, your neighbors define your living experience. [Lenny, in Apt 3 above, with the elephant feet and the horrible taste in women/music/hours of sleep; I [...]

[Exhibit A: Reasons to Believe. Photos courtesy The Sartorialist.] If I ever need inspiration on how to wear a blazer properly, The Sartorialist is a great place to mine nuggets. I say that after very minimal experience, since I don’t wear blazers often, and even then, the belligerent quest for inspiration comes only after a [...]

[Urban Outfitters dashiki t-shirt you should get + maxi skirt + Miu Miu platforms + jiffy feet.] Post-work V&Ts on the porch! Can’t emphasize this enough. 

As promised, a post of epic proportions, summing up any activity not directly work-related over the last month or so. Things have been so hectic! (Smile.) But even as I wake up most mornings in a sheer panic wondering how I will possibly get through to the end of the day (I’m very dramatic in [...]

Argh, I’m sorry—I promise we still exist. [sidenote: I seem to microblog way more consistently from Instagram now, so feel free to follow there and get spammed with cat/food/wine photos. We're wodehizzle & rwb5150.] As a peace offering, here’s a preview of a post—see how I did that? Now I’ll have to do it—of a [...]

This was one of the more difficult reviews to write. Not because I think I have something important to say, or can offer an opinion that is either a validation or departure from something already said. First, Michael Lundeen made this wine. He is a bit of a hero of mine, a talent of a [...]

Well, now I have to buy one. Or all. This is pretty rad: local jewelry designer and all around bodacious lady Rachel Albright’s Academy Jewelry dipped coral necklaces are going global via retail monolith, and furnisher of many a C+C moment, Anthropologie. There I was, just fussing around folding shirts, when I saw the sign [...]

Whisked Rob away for a quick 2 days in DC for his birthday! Here’s the Sat Nav visually portraying this. Because I’m clever. And if our first 10 minutes were any indication of the success of the trip, fingers crossed we witness just as many superbe Segway wipeouts on future trips. Man, she tackled that [...]

[All images courtesy Purse 'n boots.] I was holding a Riedel glass up to the ceiling in the kitchen at the wine bar, examining my polish job under the light for smudges. I am a connaisseur of wine vessels. I appraise them like jewels. A patron saint of transparency in a world where people still [...]

Zinfandel is an all-American grape. Its wines are brassy and intense, usually uncomplicated, and always good with barbecue and lingering summer days. The last decade, when bigger was always better, was made for Zinfandel—big fruit, big oak, obscene alcohol percentages, and just-in-time drinkability. But that model may have been fad, and now buyers are looking [...]