I love afternoon tea = love tea, love scones, love tiny sandwiches, love dessert. There's something so relaxing about the routine of having afternoon tea, too...the swirling of spoons and dropping of sugar cubes into teacups, the spreading of clotted cream on scones. No silverware is needed (besides the spoon and the spreader for the... Continue Reading →
Requiem for R.E.M.
I was a Casey Kasem top 40 kid in my early teens. I fully own my former obsession with New Kids on the Block. I was not alone, OK? And then a shift happened in 1991, when I discovered R.E.M. It's oddly fitting that R.E.M. is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Out of Time (the... Continue Reading →
Eighteen Years Later…
It was 1998. I had been working in London for six months through a work abroad program, and I had a few weeks left. I had read somewhere that the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields would be performing Mozart's Requiem. I could barely contain my excitement as I called the box office. It was a dream... Continue Reading →
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady won eight Oscars in 1964 and placed #91 on the AFI's top 100 film list. I wanted to love it because I enjoy musicals and I like Audrey Hepburn. But I didn't love it. Although the acting was first rate, I found Eliza Doolittle's (Audrey Hepburn) Cockney accent offensive. I physically cringed... Continue Reading →
Adopting Customs
I was raised a tea drinker. Neither of my parents drank coffee at home, but my dad drank Lipton tea. Then I discovered coffee in high school, and it assisted me greatly in maintaining functionality during countless early mornings and late evenings throughout college. And then I went to England for a semester during my... Continue Reading →
