Houston at Home

When we cleaned out my brother’s apartment after his last semester in college, I came across an entire drawer full of empty bread bags, twist ties and all. They were stuffed in there so tightly I could hardly pull them out; he must have been…

My heart pounds in my ears. My breath comes fast. I am cycling through the apocalypse, I think as I pedal a few wobbly, independent yards. It’s the second day of quarantine and I am trying to learn how to ride a bicycle – a…

“You’re still here.” The security guard must have watched me cross back and forth many times between the Fragonard Room and the Living Hall, my two favorite areas of The Frick Collection that could not be more different. With its Louis XVI style of wall…

I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times.”J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Because, if it had happened earlier I might have been part of the…