A year in books

I was born in Toronto and was raised in one of its suburbs, but it wasn’t until this past year that I had my own place in the city. Toronto is home, it always will be I think/hope and since I wanted to see other places beyond my home, time in Toronto was spent back…

Paris 13

Sometimes I get nostalgic for our old home in the thirteenth arrondissement  of Paris. Now, I think I must be very specific here – I reflect back lovingly and sometimes longingly on the thirteenth (and maybe a bit of the fifth, but only a bit), but not Paris as a whole. Paris, like many other big,…

Nostalgia Nouveau

This project will be an attempt to not only indulge in the hazy soft-edged memories that are distant enough to have shed all the bad and now are only remembered fondly.

Track of the day

The Beatles – Hello, Goodbye As I say goodbye to hostel life in Stockholm and hello to a full week of luxury in a borrowed Södermalm apartment

Where’s my kilt?

Yearning for travels abroad? Live vicariously through my friend Emily Varga’s blog about her life in Aberdeen (yeah, really Aberdeen) Scotland. http://wheresmykilt.blogspot.com/