This post was sparked both by today being Independence Day, and by a BBC documentary broadcast last week, entitled “Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny’s Pictures?” The fascinating documentary tells the story of a thoroughly independent nanny who died in 2009, leaving behind thousands of photographs. Never seen in her lifetime, they were found by […]
Another travel blog. This about an aimless road-trip from Chicago around the state of Wisconsin in late 2010. “Do you want the change?” the checkout girl says, and I pause. She’s helped me pack my groceries in an unfamiliar type of tall paper bag of the kind characters carry in American sitcoms, so that’s probably […]