This post is sponsored by Leesa, a mattress company with the simple goal: “to help people sleep better.” In the house where I did most of my growing up, I can slide my feet over…
A summer tomato fresh from a farm is a thing to eat if you’re feeling like you need a boost of the spirits or a restored faith in magic. That a summer tomato starts as…
It’s a good time of year, this one we’re in right now. It’s not the midsummer of the summer equinox, but the midsummer that means it’s the beginning of August and fully half the…
If you don’t grow up with them, the concept is understandably cause for some puzzling. Lobster meat in a hot dog bun? It’s like nestling a pair of cashmere-socked feet into a pair of…
Tiny tributes to fallen soldiers: boyscouts and marching bands and bright red fire trucks, lichen and granite and topsy-turvy flags.…
Long walks on the beach. Raucous board games. A high school reunion. More stuffing than I thought was possible. It was a good weekend no matter how you look at it and I was…
My hometown has a way of making you miss her in the fall months. Over the weekend, James and I were back home for the wedding of one of my oldest friends. We shuffled down…
fence post & flowers, bailing twine & mason jars.cedar posts & bottles.mom & dad.the spectacular, the genius, the perfectly wonderful, roosevelt dime.more flowers from the farm.benches & doilies (teetering on the edge of grandma-dom,…
as good a reason as any to get married in august. over the next few days, we’ll be stuffing them into vases and our mouths with gusto. it’s good to be home.…
When James and I first started thinking about where we wanted to get married, I knew exactly the place where I wanted it to happen. I imagined our wedding in the rear pasture of…