To Spain and beyond

I still think of travelling with you to Spain.
Since we've seen the Moors,
we should next travel to Madrid.
Yet because of our estrangement
you'll never know of this desire.

For the love of reading

"Oh, how different my life would have been had I not grown up in the same house with my grandmother, how much narrower and blander! She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant and contradictory place, and it had made me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions."
- American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld (p. 321)

I'm beginning to re-emerge from my silence. Stay tuned!