Faye and flowers and these words: …These obligations sometimes frustrated Carson, but not half as much as they frustrate her biographers. For Lear, the author of “Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature” (1997) and the…
five little things that made my week. 1. this view. {because someone decided this little swallow needed a new place to hang. looks pretty happy to me.} 2. these little seed markers. {and a…
We have a few small bookshelves in our house, or, more precisely, places where we shelve books. This weekend, I reorganized them. I put into deeper storage the extra copies of my own book…
Along iron fences, crocuses. Under fingernails, dirt. In bedtime stories, fairies. Across midnight skies, geese calls. In salads, hardboiled eggs (tinged pink and green and blue). At 5pm, sunlight. On top of dressers, daffodils.…
five little things that made my week. 1. this green grass. {for growing so fast.} 2. this crumbly toddler art. {inspo and then some.} 3. this tiny pinafore. {for matching a bigger one.} 4.…
Survival Tip #162: Where do you put the people? Where do you put all your stuff? It makes sense that most tiny apartment queries I get have to do with managing the stuff in a…
five little things that made my week. 1. these dogwood blossoms. {for being bedside.} 2. these pickled onions. {for making three different meals much more lively.} 3. these dried chick peas. {and silas’s tiny…
five little things that made my week. 1. these dirty chairs. {and these two who insist on sitting side by side.} 2. these daffs. {always and forever.} 3. this hopeful stare. {looking for more…
five little things that made my week: 1. this welcome sign. {and a visiting sister/auntie.} 2. this light. {any port in an interminable winter? first time trying one of these babies!} 3. these blossoms.…
In my pet apartment fantasy, I imagine getting free rein to transform our current bathroom into something rather more bright and light and welcoming. Punch a hole in the ceiling and let the light stream…