I have no intention of becoming sensible. Responsible, yes. Sensible, not entirely. There is a difference. Responsible means you pay attention to consequences. Sensible means you stop doing things that might become stories. I would prefer to keep the stories. Aging has a strange reputation. We talk about becoming wiser. More measured. More careful. Less [...]

I love restaurants. Beautiful ones, tiny ones, famous ones, slightly chaotic ones, hotel restaurants, neighborhood places, old institutions with polished silver, new places where nobody can explain the menu without using the word "concept." I love the theater of them. The entrance. The host stand. The first drink. The menus. The tiny decisions that somehow [...]