Tip #70: Picnic dinners. Choices. We live in a very small apartment in large part because we live in a very beautiful neighborhood. Last week, when my sister Devan was visiting from Asheville, we…
Tip #63: Create a common space, even a tiny one. As the weather gets warmer, coming back to our tiny apartment has a way of making me feel just a little bit hemmed in.…
Tip #61: It doesn’t matter how tiny your apartment is, if you share it with someone, divvy up the housework. Without going into all the mushy details about how we met on a tiny…
At long last, a few shots of wintry decorations in our tiny apartment. This year, instead of a tree, I opted for wintery greenery of a more miniature kind: tiny swags, fir clippings in…
five little things that made my week. 1. this stack of books. {because they’re flagrantly breaking my nightstand rule of one. ah well.} 2. this food scrap news. {because after six years of bringing compost to…
five little things that my week. 1. this harmonica.{because it’s been lost at the laundromat for two months, but it finally made its way home.}2. this tiny garden.{because i finally cleaned it up after our…
sidewalk | forget-me-nots | dusty miller lavender | friend | sparkles ball jar | water | terracotta planter james | forget-me-nots parsley | plant-friends window box in situ our tiny apartment is tucked into…
It’s summer. New York City public schools are finally out. The city pools are opening tomorrow. My anxiety of a wide open summer without school and with only very limited childcare is rising at…
We harvested four tiny radishes from our window box garden this week. They were yanked from the dirt before being strictly ready for pulling and eaten with an enthusiasm reserved exclusively for children who…
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…