This today:

Today: Honey comb + lemons from Los Angeles in the mail (thank you sister!) This food blog. Oh my. So inspired by the photos + eating seasonally. Summer rain and crickets. Finding the perfect place folded into T’s arms and dreaming for a half our putting the boys to bed. Planning my thesis. Prepping postcards [...]

// Things I want to remember

So busy this week, back to school, back to being in a hundred places at once. Still, it’s summer and I’m trying to be in it. At the dinner table watching our boys run out across the grass holding hands to look for sticks for roasting marshmallows, T says: “Oh love, I want this to [...]

Community + belonging: online vs.offline

// Good morning. Here are a few glimpses of my favorite (new) place to get coffee. Bikes + bright, bold lattes and big reclaimed wood tables. A place to collide, connect + get work done… which has me wondering about a topic we’ve been discussing in class lately: what is the value of online communities [...]

Sleep deprivation + inspiration + some springtime glimpes

Everything has turned green suddenly, and on a brief walk around the house last night this is what I saw. +++ I’m still humming with wonder at the work that I do now: that I have this chance to write, create, share, make. That this is my job, finally, truly. And that this book is [...]

Utter failings and exquisite truths

It hit me today while I was running that I don’t tell stories here nearly as much as I used to and I miss it, and I can see that you must miss it because the comments dwindle when I post sporadically and tersely with just a few scraps of observation from my day. And [...]