Lisa Anselmo

“Nostalgia is in my blood. My mother was a passionate teacher of history and a lover of all things "was." I, too, prefer the bygone, and I'm prone to waxing wistful over the end of something even as I'm living it--cherishing, hanging on.”
― Lisa Anselmo, My (Part-Time) Paris Life: How Running Away Brought Me Home

“It became a tradition to bookend my stays with parties: the welcome home party and the leaving party, or fête de vidange, as we called it, a play on the expression for grape harvest, fête de vendange—where we’d empty, or vider, my refrigerator before I’d close up the apartment and return to New York.”
― Lisa Anselmo, My (Part-Time) Paris Life: How Running Away Brought Me Home