Someone recommended this novel (The Time In Between by María Dueñas) for me to read while I was in Spain, and I thought it wouldn’t be my thing but I’m really enjoying it! I got it from the library as an ebook on the Libby app, really putting my household’s 15 year old Kobo to work.
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Someone recommended this novel (The Time In Between by María Dueñas) for me to read while I was in Spain, and I thought it wouldn’t be my thing but I’m really enjoying it! I got it from the library as an ebook on the Libby app, really putting my household’s 15 year old Kobo to work.
This week in Art I Am Obsessed With: this self-portrait by Suzanne Valadon. It looks so incredibly contemporary (I would literally wear that exact outfit on hot summer day) but it’s from 1923. Anyway, love a queen with flowy pants and a dangling cigarette!
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This week in Art I Am Obsessed With: this self-portrait by Suzanne Valadon. It looks so incredibly contemporary (I would literally wear that exact outfit on hot summer day) but it’s from 1923. Anyway, love a queen with flowy pants and a dangling cigarette!
I’m speaking at this really fun, feminist event about the Virgin Mary on November 25th. If you’re in Toronto and this seems like it would be up your alley, I’d love to see you there! Kadie is an amazing and dynamic woman and I love her vision of revisiting biblical women through a modern lens.
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I’m speaking at this really fun, feminist event about the Virgin Mary on November 25th. If you’re in Toronto and this seems like it would be up your alley, I’d love to see you there! Kadie is an amazing and dynamic woman and I love her vision of revisiting biblical women through a modern lens.
Hanging out with this cuddly 15 lb menace. His father is a large neighbourhood stray named Dirk Moosehead. His mother is a delicate sweetheart who’s named Sabine after one of the dolls in Eloise. Together they’ve created one of the most terrible cats of all time.
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Hanging out with this cuddly 15 lb menace. His father is a large neighbourhood stray named Dirk Moosehead. His mother is a delicate sweetheart who’s named Sabine after one of the dolls in Eloise. Together they’ve created one of the most terrible cats of all time.
Will delete this in a hot second, but something I totally forgot about until this week is that when I did a 23 & Me test many years ago (before I realized that the whole enterprise was problematic - I didn’t properly think it through), I learned that I was allegedly part Spanish
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Will delete this in a hot second, but something I totally forgot about until this week is that when I did a 23 & Me test many years ago (before I realized that the whole enterprise was problematic - I didn’t properly think it through), I learned that I was allegedly part Spanish
A friend and I have a running joke that images of St Sebastian are always the gayest, sluttiest works in Catholic art history. Anyway, this 16th c. painting by Luis de Vargas isn’t beating the allegations. Love Sebastian’s crop top paired with the extreme low-rise skirt, plus the gladiator sandals.
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 AM
A friend and I have a running joke that images of St Sebastian are always the gayest, sluttiest works in Catholic art history. Anyway, this 16th c. painting by Luis de Vargas isn’t beating the allegations. Love Sebastian’s crop top paired with the extreme low-rise skirt, plus the gladiator sandals.
Belated, because it would have given away our exact location at the time: the view from the deck of our accommodation in Seville. Sunrise and sunset, with the iconic Setas (mushroom-like wooden structure that you can climb) lit up in bright purple. Loved, loved, loved that city.
November 1, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Belated, because it would have given away our exact location at the time: the view from the deck of our accommodation in Seville. Sunrise and sunset, with the iconic Setas (mushroom-like wooden structure that you can climb) lit up in bright purple. Loved, loved, loved that city.
Today in emails from my grandmother: I told her that 14yo got a kick out of her swearing and jokingly flicking an elastic at him (while he defended himself with a Coke bottle), and this was her response
(14yo was impressed that his 90yo great-grandmother knew how to use LOL appropriately)
November 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Today in emails from my grandmother: I told her that 14yo got a kick out of her swearing and jokingly flicking an elastic at him (while he defended himself with a Coke bottle), and this was her response
(14yo was impressed that his 90yo great-grandmother knew how to use LOL appropriately)
Last day in Spain. Again, I didn’t do a great job of taking pictures. We went to the Alcazaba and the Castillo Gibralfaro in the morning. Then we had tapas and 14yo sang the “fine ham abounds” song from Kids in the Hall. Then to the Picasso museum, where I felt very seen by this painting.
October 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Last day in Spain. Again, I didn’t do a great job of taking pictures. We went to the Alcazaba and the Castillo Gibralfaro in the morning. Then we had tapas and 14yo sang the “fine ham abounds” song from Kids in the Hall. Then to the Picasso museum, where I felt very seen by this painting.
Second-to-last day in Spain: 14yo admiring the view at breakfast in Nerja, and various scenes from the video game museum in Málaga (including a VR slide). Can’t believe tomorrow is our last day here (and the last day of my extended patio season)
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Second-to-last day in Spain: 14yo admiring the view at breakfast in Nerja, and various scenes from the video game museum in Málaga (including a VR slide). Can’t believe tomorrow is our last day here (and the last day of my extended patio season)
Three more nights in Spain, and I’m getting excited to see my cats and sleep in my own bed. We’ve had such an amazing time and have done so much that, when we were talking about our favourite parts over dinner, we forgot a bunch of stuff.
My God, the Mediterranean is beautiful.
October 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Three more nights in Spain, and I’m getting excited to see my cats and sleep in my own bed. We’ve had such an amazing time and have done so much that, when we were talking about our favourite parts over dinner, we forgot a bunch of stuff.
Córdoba day 2: the archeological museum of Córdoba (free, fascinating, and built on the ruins of a Roman amphitheatre), Casa de Sefarad (pictured: 14yo with a statue of Maimonides, who was born here), and a pair of linked museums about alchemy and medieval Islamic life in the city. I’m beat.
October 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Córdoba day 2: the archeological museum of Córdoba (free, fascinating, and built on the ruins of a Roman amphitheatre), Casa de Sefarad (pictured: 14yo with a statue of Maimonides, who was born here), and a pair of linked museums about alchemy and medieval Islamic life in the city. I’m beat.
I didn’t do a very good job of taking pictures today, but here’s 14yo with a statue of Athena at the Casa de Pilatos in Seville, the interior of the Mosque-Cathedral in Córdoba, 14yo pulling a face at dinner, and my current view while I read before bed
October 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I didn’t do a very good job of taking pictures today, but here’s 14yo with a statue of Athena at the Casa de Pilatos in Seville, the interior of the Mosque-Cathedral in Córdoba, 14yo pulling a face at dinner, and my current view while I read before bed
Seville day 3 part 2: a courtyard at the fine arts museum, a painting of a death as a spooky skeleton by Juan de Valdés Leal titled “in the blink of an eye”, the Virgin of Hope of Macarena, and a pretty great mural of a book shelf
October 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Seville day 3 part 2: a courtyard at the fine arts museum, a painting of a death as a spooky skeleton by Juan de Valdés Leal titled “in the blink of an eye”, the Virgin of Hope of Macarena, and a pretty great mural of a book shelf
Seville day 3 part 1: the museum of navigation, where we got to climb this many-storeyed viewing tower and I learned that Magellan’s expedition departed from here, Virgin of the Good Books Street, and this excellent tree I saw
October 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Seville day 3 part 1: the museum of navigation, where we got to climb this many-storeyed viewing tower and I learned that Magellan’s expedition departed from here, Virgin of the Good Books Street, and this excellent tree I saw