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winter

  • cedar wreath

    solstice poem.

    iA tree hulks in the living-room, prickly monster, our hostagefrom the wilderness, preludeto light in this dark space of the yearwhich turns again toward the suntoday, or at least we hope so.Outside, a dead…

    December 22, 2015 1 Comments
  • embracing winter with tradlands.

    This post is sponsored by Tradlands, a Made-in-America shirt company making some of the very best button-ups for women.Write a blog for long enough and it’s admittedly a little hard not to sound like a…

    December 15, 2015 10 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #136: Size your traditions to fit your space.I’ve written before about my philosophy on holiday decorating: Simple and spare and requiring only a shoe box’s worth of space in the closet for storage in the…

    December 9, 2015 45 Comments
  • berry branches in a tiny apartment | reading my tea leaves

    life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #135: Berries make the room.That’s how the expression goes, doesn’t it?The snowflake lights are strung up and turned on over Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. Too early for Christmas some people might say, but I…

    November 18, 2015 17 Comments
  • a wool overcoat from everlane.

    This post is in sponsored by Everlane, a transparent clothing company that I’ve come to rely on for simple, classic additions to my wardrobe.Some of you might recall that last winter I was bemoaning…

    November 9, 2015 48 Comments
  • shake the wintertime blues: move.

    This post almost didn’t get written. First I had to double-check the price of two tickets to Puerto Rico. Which led me to wondering about cute sun hats for babies with tiny heads. Which…

    February 18, 2015 14 Comments
  • shake the wintertime blues: museum hop.

    Days boasting wintry or summery extremes are my favorite ones to go museum hopping. Inside the climate-controlled walls of the museum, I can last for hours when I might otherwise succumb to frost-bite or…

    January 19, 2015 13 Comments
  • shake the wintertime blues: ten tiny things.

    Ten tiny things we did over the weekend that made our apartment feel fresh and bright and the frigid temps more tolerable. 1. Light some candles. The hardest part about coming back to our apartment…

    January 12, 2015 39 Comments
  • brown sugar & spice syrup.

    Sometimes all you need is the taste of something to get you in the spirit of things. And sometimes that taste comes in the form of a syrup. This is not a recent discovery.…

    November 20, 2014 4 Comments