Status Updates From Blue Nights

“It was a time of my life during which I actually believed that somewhere between frying the chicken to serve on Sara Mankiewicz’s Minton dinner plates and buying the Porthault parasol to shade the beautiful baby girl in Saigon I had covered the main ‘motherhood’ points.” Was just the beginning.

I have the poor habit of reading 10 pages of a book and then forgetting it for months. Anyway, I still love Joan Didion, and this one is proving a good compliment to “Notes for John.”