An unthemed update (time to catch up)
I’m sitting in my living room, listening to “Linus and Lucy” for one of the first times this season, a little transfixed by the Christmas tree, finally decorated. It’s my first tree (and I even wielded the saw!) and is mostly covered with my parents’ castoff ornaments and a bunch of FIMO fruit ornaments […]
Quietly thrilling
“It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.” – Bill Bryson, At Home I’ve been reading At Home for quite a while now. I’m actually really liking it – how things have found their way into our homes is […]
When things get crazy and you need to slow down…
…I highly recommend reorganizing a bookshelf or two. It’s funny that my last couple of posts were about having a homebody weekend, things being crazy, because they’ve only become so much more so. In some strange way, that weekend was less about rejuvenation as it was about gearing up for the next challenge, as it […]
The January list (an ongoing project)
Like so many people, I was feeling good vibes from the whole 2011 thing. Feeling like this year, I’m going to focus on doing a lot of the things I’ve been meaning to do for a long time. Like this is a year for change. To feel challenged. To pay more attention to how and […]
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 
