Departures Magazine For the past few years, I’ve bought practically everything online. It’s easy convenience, and when I open the beautiful box with its multiple layers of tissue paper, I can pretend that a secret admirer has sent me a present. Recently,...
Vogue A chance encounter with New York City society doyenne Nan Kempner led to Patricia Morrisroe’s education in the art of having fun. Two summers ago, while strolling around Piazza San Marco, I passed by Missiaglia, the oldest jeweler in Venice. Read...
Modern Love, New York Times ON a romantic trip through the English countryside, my husband fell in love with another woman. He met her at a car rental agency on the outskirts of London, where she arrived with the upgrade package. Nervous about driving on the opposite...
Departures Few gave Gucci a fighting chance when Tom Ford left in 2004. But out of the ashes rose creative director Frida Giannini, who has silenced the naysayers by striking a balance between flashy extravagance and understated elegance. Read...
Vogue Slender and at risk for Osteoporosis, Patricia Morrisroe began taking medicine daily. Now, ten years later, she wonders: did the drugs do more harm than good? No body would ever call me a daredevil—reading is my favorite pastime—but over the years...
Vogue Young and in love, Patricia Morrisroe moved into her boyfriend’s Sutton Place apartment only to have her visions of a romantic summer subsumed by a family drama. When I was in a used-book store recently, I came across a photograph o a dark haired young...
Morrisroe’s sparkling writing carries her through. That her journey ends happily, with her discovery of Qigong, means readers will be as encouraged as well as informed, with as much on overcoming insomnia as avoiding snake-oil salesmen.
