Tip #72: Employ icy footrests. Post related to the summer heat #2,348. The evenings around here lately have been a marathon of foot propping. If my feet swell this much from the heat, I’m…
On Sunday we celebrated Bastille Day with a quick walk to Smith Street where gigantic swaths of the street had been turned into sandy pétanque courts. Pétanque, for those of you who might be…
This is not fancy. It’s barely a recipe. And I wasn’t going to blog about it until I became overcome with the way the cut up cherries shimmered in the waning sunlight in our…
five little things that made my week. 1. this bundle. {because the beginning of the week looked like this}. 2. this nightgown. {because i know i linked to it last week, but it’s that…
This morning’s been a study in learning how to take photographs in a very dark apartment and waking up early for peaches. I wanted to get to the farmers’ market in our neighborhood while…
Tip #71: Finding a tiny apartment. Here’s something that I’ve never really officially covered but that gets asked of me a lot. How did you find your tiny apartment? I think the…
We have family friends that refer to James as Turtle Boy. Seven summers ago when I returned to my hometown after a summer spent working falling in love on Jekyll Island, Georgia, I made an…
I love the rhythm to days at the beach. The getting up early because the sun streams in from all directions. The morning walks. The slipping in and out of bathing suits. The way…
five little things that made my week. or, an ode to the fourth of july (flowers). 1. this woody. {because you can’t get cheerier than that}. 2. this garden. {for all those colors}. 3.…
Tip #70: Picnic dinners. Choices. We live in a very small apartment in large part because we live in a very beautiful neighborhood. Last week, when my sister Devan was visiting from Asheville, we…