About Belle de Jour

I’m on an existential hunt for beauty. Not the superficial sort that glimmers in fashion magazines and jewelry stores. The beauty that changes the course of your day, like a complimentary cup of coffee. Beauty that turns a habitual moment into a memory, like a conversation with a cab driver in frenzied traffic.

That beauty is rarely publicized.

I’ll observe and document beauty as I see it happen. With luck, the stories will unveil a morsel of universal truth through a journalistic lens.

I promise, my stories are worth your time. Contrary to the maxim, “beauty is pain,” I believe that beauty heals.

— Cassidy (Belle de Jour)