Read This When: You’re On Vacation
Summer leisure. The only thing more pressing than which hat you’ll pack (choose the Panama) is what book to pick up. From ageless to hot-off-the press, cerebral to escapist, we’ve…
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Margaret Everton
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Read This When: You Crave Adventure
Adventure is a tricky word. It is subjective, vague. It can be a perilous voyage on raging seas, or calmly speaking our mind over coffee with a friend. But we…
Read This When: You are Feeling Poetic
Poetry transplants us. It jars us awake with its pace and rhythm, so different from everyday life. It grabs us by the shoulders and says, as Rilke did so brilliantly…
Lady of Legacy: Mary Delany
By the time Mary Delany died at age 88 in 1788, she had outlived two husbands, mingled with Handel, befriended King George III and Queen Charlotte, lived in Windsor and…
Read This When: You Want A Good Saga
Sometimes you just want to submerge yourself in a story — to stay up too late because the book is just that enveloping, or seriously reconsider breakfast if not eating…
Lady Of Legacy: Ray Eames
“I never gave up painting, I just changed my palette. ” Ray Kaiser Eames (December 15, 1912 – August 21, 1988) made up half of the creative duo that spread…
International Women’s Day
Every March 8th, we celebrate women. It started like this: in 1911, German theorist and activist Clara Zetkin organized International Women’s Day to rally for social, economic and political reform.…
Lady Of Legacy: Sophia Jex-Blake, MD
United Kingdom, 1870. Charles Dickens dies in Rochester. The postal headquarters puts Victoria’s face on the new Three Halfpence Red stamp. In Edinburgh, Sophia Jex-Blake and the first female medical…
A Field Guide to Lifelong Learning
The world is your intellectual wilderness. You are an explorer traversing foreign terrain, taking with you new information and interests as you would exotic flora or a strange insect. Formal…
Lady Of Legacy: Tomoe Gozen
In the feudal era, samurai ruled Japan. Under the Shogun, these warrior dynasties formed the country’s aristocracy. But this military nobility did more than enjoy the cush of privelege. Samurai…
Lady Of Legacy: Doris Lessing
I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing on the strength of my own drunkenness into…
Your Aria of Expertise: Mastering the Opera, Ballet & Symphony
Like a first kiss, you never forget your first opera. Innocent and perhaps slightly awkward, you go through the motions of what you’ve only heard about: the velvet curtains, the…
