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  • election checklist, week twelve.

    We have 22 days until the 2020 election in the US. That’s 3 weeks during which I’ll be trying my damnedest to get leaders elected who will move the dial toward equity, inclusion, and…

    October 12, 2020 0 Comments
  • election checklist, week ten.

    We have 36 days until the 2020 election in the US. That’s 5 weeks during which I’ll be trying my damnedest to get leaders elected who will move the dial toward equity, inclusion, and…

    September 28, 2020 3 Comments
  • baby proof: bedtime stories lately.

    Back to school? Back to zoom? Back to the kitchen table? I’ve sharpened pencils and cleaned summer’s stash of pebbles and sticks and tiny doll shoes out of backpacks. Silas is back to daycare…

    September 10, 2020 14 Comments
  • my week in objects (mostly).

    1. this honeydew. {especially that color.} 2. this crib. {and our very nearly six-month-old for still sleeping in it.} 3. this hummus. {because sometimes lunch means standing in the kitchen, staring into space, scooping…

    August 7, 2020 6 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #195: In finding apartments and tenants (and very good husbands) it only takes one. On Monday morning, I bought two small bunches of hydrangeas from the bodega on the corner. The plan was…

    August 6, 2020 19 Comments
  • make-believe: puzzles etc.

    Our indoor reality right now includes a lot of keeping small humans from mauling each other, making and cleaning up meals at an astonishing rate, and trying to find a quiet corner in 500…

    May 18, 2020 9 Comments
  • baby proof: a baby mobile.

    I made a mobile for Calder over the weekend. She’s two months old now and despite sharing a name with a sculptor famous for his large, spinning works of art, she didn’t have even…

    April 20, 2020 4 Comments
  • habit shift: hobbies.

    Being an adult person with a full time job who also spends a lot of time parenting small children, can make me feel like finding the time to learn a new skill, or get…

    January 21, 2020 36 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #190: Gather around a table. It’s been a noticeably dark December. Not in the doom and gloom kind of way—though to be sure, there’s plenty of that to be found in the world…

    December 18, 2019 51 Comments