LNB Associates
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Resume
  • Client List
  • Publications
  • Writing Samples
  • Contact
Select Page

Hyggelig 3: From Counterculture Colors to the Black Diamond

May 11th, 2018 | Architecture and Design, Europe, General, literature and poetry, Popular Culture, Society at Large, Travel

Christianshavn is a relic of 17th-century development. Thus its shape is that of a segment of a circle with the København Havn (the redundant “Merchants Harbor Port”) representing the chord and Stadsgraven Canal forming the arc.  Originally a moat protecting the...
Hyggelig 2: Bulls and Dragons

Hyggelig 2: Bulls and Dragons

May 9th, 2018 | Architecture and Design, Europe, General, Travel, visual arts

My Dear One pointed it out to me on our first stroll: “Mr. Softee.” The spire of the of Børsen, the Old Stock Exchange, with its quartet of dragons, tails entwined, does indeed look at first glance like an attenuated tower of soft-serve ice cream. Above the dragons,...
Hyggelig 1: Living Cozy

Hyggelig 1: Living Cozy

May 9th, 2018 | Cooking, Kitchen and Table, Europe, General, Shopping, Travel

Apartment 1 in the Central Canal Apartments, Wildersgade, 15, in the Christianshavn neighborhood in Copenhagen is snug. No rugs for bugs and no room for much else. A rack accommodates clothes on hangers but stuff that would go into drawers must stay in suitcases. The...

Book # 10 in 2018: “Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls” by David Sedaris

April 2nd, 2018 | Europe, Family, General, literature and poetry, Travel

I normally read Sedaris in places like New Yorker magazine; my husband buys the published collections for me at Christmas or on my birthday, and each piece is a cupcake I can take to bed and not leave crumbs. If I spent more time in the car, maybe I’d listen...
Christmas Letter 2017

Christmas Letter 2017

December 19th, 2017 | Cooking, Kitchen and Table, Europe, General, Memory, Travel, United States

Dearest All, A single Japanese eggplant plunked in a pot parked on the edge of the driveway around the first of July was still producing beautiful purple fruit at Halloween. Eggplant parmesan. Ratatouille. A whopping lot of pasta alla Norma. Dan reaped the final...
Based in Batignolles 7: Bienvenue et Adieu

Based in Batignolles 7: Bienvenue et Adieu

July 1st, 2017 | Europe, Friends, transportation, Travel

Inbound from Charles de Gaulle-Roissy airport, all had gone smoothly until we were in a taxi headed into Paris—at a crawl. The traffic was simply horrific, as bad as anything I have experienced from route 128 outside Boston to any freeway from San Diego to Los...
« Older Entries
Next Entries »
K-12 language arts, social studies and science passages and items; history of art, art education and art criticism; travel writing

Recent Posts

  • Lisboa 5: A Glance Back
  • Lisboa 4: Alfama’s Heights
  • Lisboa 3: Sintra
  • Lisboa 2:  The Beauty and the Shame
  • Lisboa 1: Getting Started

Categories

Related Posts

  • Based in Batignolles 1: A Good American

    What good American doesn’t dream of a pied à terre in Paris, especially now that…

  • Based in Batignolles 3: Beyond the Pale

    Apparently, our neighborhood does not exist. Consult a tourist guide like Eyewitness Paris and there…

  • Based in Batignolles 4: Love Locked Down

    The novelist Federico Mocci (b. 1963) published a story in 2006 called Ho Voglia di…