2018-03-14
22 分钟Modern love.
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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
Im your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
When confronted with the unimaginable, sometimes the only thing you can do is concentrate on the things you can control and buy online.
Thats what Nina Riggs wrote about in her essay when a couch is more than a couch.
Heres Oscar winner Kate Winslet reading Ninas.
Piece were I healthy enough these days, I would be sipping a glass of free wine and running my hands over an exquisite accent pillow in an impossibly hip showroom called something like space or lust, while a sales assistant speaks to me of the virtues of aniline versus semi aniline leather.
So you really think kiln dried hardwood is worth the extra expense?
I'd be asking.
And does this come in a three seater?
Instead, I'm propped in bed on a dozen pillows with my laptop, perusing online furniture stores, West Elm, joy, bird, crate and barrel, and something called chair ish.
I am an Internet sofa shopping fiend.
I take breaks only when the oxy overwhelms me and my head starts to loll.
I cannot rest until I have considered every mid century modern with a hint of bohemian sofa the World wide Web has to offer pore over design sites like apartment therapy, design sponge and domino.
Searching, searching.
Since John and I married 16 years ago, we have never had a real grown up couch.
We have plenty of well loved misfits, as is Ikea specials, parental handoffs, Craigslist semi miracles, and roadside rescues.
First we were broke and then we had babies.