Hi Guys! How are you? I had a planned a celebratory mood for this month’s newsletter, until February 23rd, when everything I wanted to talk about became suddenly trivial, superficial, unnecessary. Since the age of…
Posts Published by Alice Carbone
Turning 40, and a Stellar Debut for Eating Again
Hi guys, January, birthday month, coldest month (according to an old Italian fable), month of new beginnings… How was yours? Having been writing these newsletters for a while now, I try to not plan the…
What Joan Didion Taught Me, and the New Year Ahead
We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion wrote in 1979. The White Album, where this quote is from, wasn’t the first work of hers I read. Blue Nights was. When I moved…
Cyber Monday Gratitude
Hi guys, How are you? I was up all night last night, worrying, planning, thinking… I woke up from a strange dream, thought I heard an ad about hearing aids on Ben’s phone, complained that…
Resilience: I’ll Be Clumsy Instead
Hi guys, how are you? How was October? This month for me, I’ll go straight to the point, has been about resilience. The past 5 years have been. The last two, obviously, even more. If…