Astella Quinn is the newborn daughter of two like minds and souls who met in architecture school. Mom’s now an interior designer and dad’s an architect so Astella might just grow up with some serious design sense. But for now she’s hard at work relaxing and eliciting a serious quantity of oohs and aahs from...
Hubby and I always follow a very simple trip planning rule: start off with a bang. I thought all of India counted as the bang so I didn’t pay much attention to what came in which order on our itinerary but, in retrospect, our bang came at the end: Varanasi. We loved the Taj Mahal...
India is overwhelming and utterly defined by its contrasts. So much of my experience of the country and people can only be recounted in dualities. It is luminously beautiful, garrish-ly rich and totally accessible. It is darkly dirty, impossibly poor and so much lives unsaid and unexplained to a foreigner’s eye. Unlike any other country...
