1. Here is my theory about why I dislike so many photos of myself: I don't look from the outside the way I feel from the inside. So it's always a little like looking at an almost-stranger.

2. I think that's a lovely picture. Hi, face! I like to see you.

3. That movie sounds lovely. I have a trio of cousins who ran off to France to drive ambulances during WWI and then all moved home to Vermont, which is why my family now has a house there. I think of those women often and wish that they had left diaries.