1. this tiny bouquet. {and getting to pluck it from our own little pots.} 2. this bag. {as trusty as ever and filled with mostly sweats for a rainy weekend.} 3. this giant paper…
The heat (among other things) has been making me feel cranky and crampy and generally irritable this week. So here’s a daydream about how I’d like to be passing the heatwave: short skirt, rotating…
We’re back in Brooklyn after a few days away. Before we left I filled glass bottles with water and jammed them upside down into the freshly saturated soil of my rooftop pots. My hope…
1. this self-portrait. {on the occasion of my thirty-seventh birthday.} 2. this tote. {and the perpetual usefulness of standing up straight.} 3. this third little letter. {for being added to the mix.} 4. the…
My children, like many, adore a sno-cone. They’ll slurp at a sugary, syrupy, bright red and blue mound of ice in a paper cone until the flavors run out or their hands are too…
This post is sponsored by Misha & Puff. Their swimwear collection launches on Tuesday, June 29th, at 11 AM EDT. In the summertime my kids tend to be up with the birds and down…
1. these pencils. {because there’s nothing like a fresh start. 2. these bags. {for (also) covering the phone jack.} 3. these many glasses of iced tea. {for helping me push through the afternoon slump.}…
I spend a lot of time thinking about how to harness the incredible solar energy that shimmers off of the old silvery roof outside our kitchen window. If I had my druthers there’d be…
Summer is upon us and while I always picture long days of my kids lazing around and slurping watermelon juice from their arms and amusing themselves with nothing more than chalk and bubble wands,…
1. this sun tea. {chilled.} 2. this pot of mint. {for doubling before my eyes.} 3. this dress {and the perfect weather to wear it in.} 4. this rearranged closet. {for being a better…