1. Kate Adie's memoir, The Kindness of Strangers. It reminded me of why I am so keen to keep up with the news.
2. Clean windows.
3. My mother's linen chest. It's carved with oriental scenes and made of camphor wood that makes the bed linen smell medicinal and clean and homey.
Magnolia, pagoda and station.
1. Late magnolias -- always a pleasure. 2. We like everything about the pagoda -- including the long climb to the top -- but particularly th...
