What a creature! What a meditation! lithub.com/the-mystery-of…

Issey Miyake was a goddamn genius, and the world was more delightful with him in it. Remembering him today by thinking about how I can make practical things more beautiful and beautiful things more practical.

Tell my story

brb, rewriting all of my HGTV history of design articles.

Dr. Welch's magical brew! Carl Jung (not that one)! Hot vineyards and pesky sugar! I wrote about nonalcoholic wine and the entrepreneurs who are making it tasty at long last. smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the…

Yoko Ono! Corpse-stealing! So many dodgy popes! I collected my favorite Halloween trivia for HGTV. hgtv.com/lifestyle/holi…

Just massive kudos for the person who created this Halloween squirrel feeder

Tonight in Berlin: fled a man interrogating Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” on the clarinet straight into the arms of a dude murdering it with a violin.

Marshmallow is a plant! Turkey-trot pukes! Zoo-related terror! My latest seasonal-oddities piece is live for HGTV. hgtv.com/lifestyle/holi…

My favorite story of the year - on Iceland's mighty Jólabókaflóð - is live with Smithsonian Magazine at last. Happy holidays, everyone! BUY EVERY BOOK YOU CAN AND KEEP LITERATURE ALIVE. smithsonianmag.com/travel/iceland…

I was quoted in that rarest of things, a well-grounded, thoroughly researched article about the Icelandic tradition of giving books as holiday gifts, jólabókaflóðið.

Bibliophiles the world over cherish the legend of Jólabókaflóð, Iceland’s “Christmas book flood” in which publishers release new titles in time for the holidays. bit.ly/3Yp4R06

Balaclava expectations v. reality are wild.

Today, I was one of the 274 people laid off DDM, while working on a yacht in the BVI—now that's a travel editor first! If anyone is looking for an edit lead with 10+ years experience or a freelance writer/editor for any projects, I'm your gal. [email protected]

You know the science writing has gotten to you when a nurse catches you staging and photographing something your doc removed. 💫

Puttin' the Oster in paternoster: My proudly biased Prague guide is now live HGTV. hgtv.com/lifestyle/trav…

Researching the story, tweeting about the story, pitching the story.

Jorge Luis Borges was born on this day in 1899. Read his poem "The Other Tiger," published in The Atlantic in 1967: theatln.tc/hCR9HZVc