Palm Springs

April 30th, 2009

My room is all-white with flowing curtains and a stone floor. The sounds of the many fountains echo off the walls of the courtyard outside my room. I lay in my starkly white bed looking out over the warm pool framed by arbors of Bougainvillea to the mountains beyond, watching hummingbirds compete for nectar from [...]

Road Trips

April 11th, 2009

Last summer, I loaded up the car with books, music, magazines and a big cooler.  I stuffed tee-shirts and summer dresses into my bag and good shampoo to counteract the lousy amenities at the little independent motels scattered across the country that I prefer to stay at.  Never been a chain girl (loathsome of the [...]