Happy New Year from The Girl with the White Parasol

 Happy New Year, everyone!

It's been a quiet year for the blog but a busy and ultimately quite happy year for me. I hope to see all of you in 2015 and I look forward to the new adventures in store. Let us all follow Rita Hayworth's example and march proudly forward into the new year. Here's to the final reel of 2014!

Farewell, Luise Rainer

When you lose your curiosity, you’re dead. There is so much in the world that one should know, or it would be marvelous to know. And I know nothing. Nothing! My God, one’s life-span is so very short.

Luise Rainer (1910-2014)