Tip #76: Use clear shower curtain liners. If I were to give a simple tip about making a small apartment bathroom appear larger, I’d say use a clear shower curtain liner instead of a…
Cooking on a cast iron skillet can sometimes feel like being in an a relationship with a volatile friend. Most of the time the relationship is lovely and wonderful and then suddenly it sours…
five little things that made my week. 1. this fern. {for still being alive post vacation}. 2. this bee’s wrap. {for keeping things fresh, sans plastic}. 3. this candle. {because going without a good…
Tip #75: Get some perspective. At the risk of being a culturally insensitive boor, let me say that spending some time in a canvas tipi in the middle of the Wallowa Mountains of eastern…
Anyone who tells you that the Oregon coast is always gloomy lacks experience, or at the very least, imagination. When the sun’s not shining golden, the sky glows silver instead, offering the senses a…
Every once in a while it’s good to disappear. To pull on your coziest fleece, to tie on your sneakers, to escape into the woods or underneath the covers or anywhere that gives you…
It never feels like summer has fully arrived until there are field tomatoes and peaches at the market. The tomatoes are gnarled and bulbous and leaking with ripeness; so ugly they’re beautiful. The peaches…
Saturday was our one year wedding anniversary. And when the morning rain thwarted our plans for an afternoon sail around the harbor, we made new ones. An afternoon movie at the Paris theater. This…
1. this bowl of yogurt. {because of the plums and pecans}. 2. these new sneaks. {because upcoming adventuring called for them}. 3. these additions to the “kitchen” wall. {because, summer}. 4. this sweet sign.…
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…