I’ve spent hours being a flaneuse long before I had ever heard the word. I thought of the practice in much less graceful terminology, though; I simply called it aimless wandering. In the spirit of Baudelaire, and inspired by Peter Arkle’s “39 Things on Broadway,” allow me to present 39 things that I observed while…

What would the soundtrack of your life sound like? When I reflect on my own life experiences, an extensive and varied catalogue of songs plays softly in the background of my thoughts, like a veritable jukebox of the mind. I’ve heard that our sense of smell is the most evocative of memory, but I’d beg…