Dearest Sponsors, Happy November! I hope autumn’s grand finale is gentle and golden in your world. I hope, too, that you will give Prescott and I the one and only present we want for Thanksgiving … but more on that in a moment. First, Queen Prescott would like a word with you about Thanksgiving. The […]

Happy October, dear Royal Family! If you ask Prescott, the tenth month of the year rates a ten out of ten. October is the month when leaves turn crispy as kettle chips. Visitors enter Prescott’s lobby not even knowing there are gifts clinging to their sneakers. Queen Prescott is not too dignified to chase a […]

Happy, happy autumn, Royal Family! OK, tell me true: how do you feel about fall? I once assumed everyone is smitten with this maple-syrupy season. I now know that is not the case. I was jolted from my innocence at age sixteen, when my manager at the Gap greeted September with the poetic exclamation, “now […]

Chers amis, Ouvrons grand les jeux! Pardon me. The Games of the XXIII Olympiad may be over, but I’m afraid my heart is still bobbing in the Seine. Did you have a bit of Paris Olympics fever, too? Am I the only forty-three-year-old wondering if I might still qualify for the Pole Vault? What does […]

Happy summer, dear Royal Family!* What’s that? You scarcely noticed the solstice? Well, I can’t blame you. In the company of Queen Prescott, every morning seems like the start of summer. Her stripes and speckles sparkle like the light on the water. The sun stretches its orbit to get just a little closer. The longest […]