There’s a saying people like to repeat with a tone of quiet authority: how you do anything is how you do everything. It’s usually delivered as wisdom. Occasionally as a warning. Say it with enough confidence and it sounds like a law of human nature, simple, explanatory, tidy. It reassures people that if you understand […]
Remember Nancy Reagan and her ridiculous anti-drug campaign? Yeah, that didn’t work. Of course it didn’t. That’s because “no” isn’t for us to tell others what to do. It’s about what we choose to do or not do. There was a time when I couldn’t just say no Declining an invitation required a story. Not
I grew up on the coast of Maine, in Cape Elizabeth, where the Atlantic does its quiet, relentless work shaping stone, weathering certainty, teaching patience without ever naming the lesson. That sense of time and tide never really left me. Katherine Flores: New Yorker Graduate school brought me to New York City in 1994. I
I didn’t set out to write a blog.I set out to live more honestly. Somewhere between those two intentions, late December, a cold kitchen, a peeled sumo orange dripping onto the counter, I ended up here, writing a blog. When I began the LadyKflo mission, I never imagined it would turn into this. Yet here
Some couples seem made for each other, like Mr and Mrs Andrews in their 1749 wedding portrait. In this Thomas Gainsborough masterpiece we find these newlyweds proudly perched before their grand estate. Robert Andrews and his wife Frances Mary look so well-matched they could be siblings. Their setting is as suitable to them as they
Marriage a la Mode II: The Tete a Tete works like a meme rather than just a painting. That’s because William Hogarth was more than a mere master painter. He was a writer and satirist with an unabashed bawdiness and humor that made Hogarth an icon. In fact, his work punctuated a significant part of