Writing about fashion forces you to overcome the nagging feeling that fashion doesn't "matter", that it's trivial or fleeting. I just look at it anthropologically, which is different from the way I'd write about art.

I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.

I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a picture, but still - why is it so hard to throw them away?