A long weekend in Mexico City
I spent Thanksgiving in Mexico City (one of my three travel goal destinations for 2016). The trip was excellent and the city was as surprising, often beautiful, sometimes gritty, and generally exciting as I had heard. After pulling together a quick travel guide from memory for a colleague recently, I decided it was time to […]
Fresh starts, fresh pages
As I was saying to my sister earlier today, New Year’s Eve is not a holiday I love—too anticlimactic, too couple-y—but there’s something to be said for New Year’s Day. While the 80 degree weather here doesn’t quite facilitate quiet, cozy contemplation in the way a crisp snowstorm might, I spent the day relaxing and […]
Summer sandal smackdown
It’s finally summertime in Texas! And, as an added bonus, we still haven’t hit triple digits this year, so it’s not yet sticky and sweaty and hot hot hot. After just shy of NINE inches of rain in June (not to mention the Memorial Day floods at the end of May), I’m ready for a […]
I like writing, photography, reading, music, design, typography, paper products, days in the seventies and sparkly snow, Spanish wine and cans of PBR. I spent a year in Córdoba, Spain, working as a 
