‘Let’s take our drinks onto the balcony,’ I suggest. ‘We can watch the fireworks. Only ten minutes to go.’ I…
December 30. I had been walking the city for hours and my feet were sore despite wearing my jogging shoes.…
The sea was both silver and green and rippled in the weak sunlight. Light snow was falling and I watched…
The Beach Boys were playing on the radio. I remember that clearly. You don’t hear much Beach Boys in this…
My heart was broken. Cracked like old paint on a wall. I was in Florence, Italy and Marco had left.…
1:00 am That’s fine, still got plenty of time to sleep. I need to get a couple of hours before…
The Cannes Film Festival was better than the Oscars as it gave me an excuse to leave LA. People think…
By the first of the month, December, the month of sneezing and shopping; you had moved your cracked, stretched suitcase…
I bought the jacket at a second-hand shop in Cannes. The movie festival had ended and the city was emptying.…
It was Picasso’s Blue Period. The stretch of time between 1900 and 1904. All his paintings were blue or blue-green.…