“The mere fact of Vegas, its necessity, was an indictment of our normal lives. If we needed this place–to transform into a high roller or a sexy swinger, to be someone else, a winner for once–then certainly the world beyond the desert was a small and mealy place indeed.” — Colson Whitehead
Read More Vegas 2026“In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets.” — Cynthia Rylant
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Read More January 2023“At last came the golden month of the wild folk–honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.” ― Samuel Scoville Jr.,
Read More May 2022“I blink January’s lashes
and gush down December’s cheeks”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
If you don’t love life you can’t enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. – Eleanor Clark
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A Place For Everything. 