Today, August 21, 2012, marks my quite-late-in-the-game admission to the blogosphere. Will blogging become a habit? And if so, will "maintainging my blog" keep me from doing "actual" work -- writing my book -- or will the blog become a welcome repository for all book un-related things, a place where I can download my distractions and thereby be done with them? Only time will tell.
Herewith, a photograph by my dear childhood friend Willy Somma, of the study in Edith Wharton's country home, The Mount. It surprised me to learn that such an exacting and moral writer had a taste for architectural chicanery. The door appears to open onto realms unknown -- but in fact it just goes to her study. Perhaps my blog portal, so seemingly mysterious to me at the moment, will prove to be equally mundane.
