a tiny holiday gift that packs an impressive punch. plop a bag of mulling spices into a burbling pot of cider or wine and set the tone for an entire evening of cozy merriment.…
for me, this has been the summer of rose geranium. we grow it on the farm where i work and it’s been used with equal enthusiasm in flower bouquets and fruit jams. i can’t…
this weekend marked the culmination of a project my friends and i have been working on since september. in 2007, 100 pairs of rhode islanders sat down to record stories with the national storycorps…
because everyone deserves a little love note on valentine’s day, i left a few around the old neighborhood yesterday. dirty snow banks are a lot more tolerable with a little love note attached, don’t…
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this is not a story about breakfast. though it could be. oatmeal is for eating. i know. but sometimes it makes for a pretty good at-home spa treatment. and i’m kind of digging those…
a photographic step-by-step for making a tiny valentine.…
just a few wintertime additions i’ve added around the house in the past week or so. i’m looking forward to celebrating the end of another semester with a mug of hot wine and some…
a few photos from a small public art piece i’ve been working on this semester. letters to a neighborhood, from the people who used to live there. i’ve been spying out my window all…
july is garlic harvesting time and the farmers have been hard at work pulling the bulbs up from the fields and hanging them to dry. here, a few pictoral steps for preparing your garlic…