Roger Moore: The Man with the Golden Life

He always played Bond a bit louche. The ever present raised eye brow, the flowing double entendres, the jokes. Less of a deep character study as with Connery and more of a gent that was in it for the fun of it...

A favorite revisited: The Lost City of Z

Revisiting a favorite: The Lost City of Z By RICH COHEN What drove the British, from the start of the age of empire to its closing chapters in the 20th century, to all corners of the...

Go Always Towards the Summer

Malcolm Lowry » Go Always Towards The Summer Go Always Towards The Summer “Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep...

From an Olive Grove in Marrakech

We often talk about the resonance that we feel in moving through a landscape as we search for our one of a kind goods.  We immerse ourselves in the culture of a place to gain a stronger understanding of why...

Traveling & Writing

  "My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a...

Obsessions: Fleming’s Bond Novels

  Is there a better beach read than Fleming?  It's become a bit of a West Indies habit for us.  Chill the Rose´ wade out for a swim, dry off a bit in the sun and find Bond's mysogynistic cruelty come to...