Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was born on 24 July 1900. Her dreams ran bigger than her husband’s words, deeper than his fame. She was way more than a muse, a wife, a mother: she was a writer, and a damn fine one.*
*Zelda also danced and painted.
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”-Oscar Wilde
The House by the Railroad by Edward Hopper (born 22 July 1882). 1925.
“In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn’t creak.”-Tom Robbins (born 22 July 1936)
Strictly speaking, this ad features a newspaper, not a book. It’s so exquisite, though, that I am giving it a pass.
NY Times Advert, 1895
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”-Ernest Hemingway
“Eulogy is nice but one does not learn anything from it.”-Ellen Terry
“Let them cant about decorum, who have characters to lose!”-Robert Burns
On my desk: A is for…
1869: Ironing Woman by Edgar Degas (born on 7/19/1834)
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”-Margaret Fuller (died on 7/19/1850)
1877: Dancers Practicing at the Bar by Edgar Degas
“Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.”-Willa Cather
Willa Cather My Antonia Library Card Catalog Pendant by Parker’s Porch. $27.00
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fountain in Savannah
Food is magic, so it’s no wonder that I feel deeply, divinely alive and loved when The Chef cooks for me. His most recent culinary offering started like this:
Corn on the cob is beautiful in and of itself, but my husband, The Chef, decided to transform it into something even better! See below for details.
CHEF LEIGHTON’S GRILLED CORNFUSION
INGREDIENTS:
DIRECTIONS:
Grilled Cornfusion!
It is slightly sweet, slightly spicy, and 100% marvelous! Kind of like a certain special someone I know…
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”-George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
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