• baby proof: sleep away from home.

    There have been a lot of questions and so here’s my best effort at answering how we’ve handled sleep and a toddler while spending more than a month away from home.Here’s the thing: In…

    June 30, 2016 14 Comments
  • evening in saint-malo.

    On the evening that we arrived in Saint-Malo, the light made the city glow like a colorized old-timey postcard. You know the ones? Everything cast in a pale yellow or green-blue or washed-out gray.…

    June 27, 2016 15 Comments
  • my week in objects (mostly).

    five little things that made my week.1. this shell.{for fitting right in.}2. these hydrangeas.{for blooming before we have to head home.}3. this little yellow jacket.{for being an over-sized solution for keeping a tiny bug moderately…

    June 24, 2016 13 Comments
  • baby proof: travel tips from a toddler.

    It must be known that a two-year-old is an intrepid traveler: all gut checks and self-care and general enthusiasm for the new and unexplored. To be fair, a two-year-old is also a terrible traveler: indifferent to…

    June 21, 2016 22 Comments
  • my week in objects (mostly).

    five little things that made my week. 1. this little yogurt jar. {and those lil’ guys for hanging on.} 2. these sandals. {because it’s warmed up again around here. also, twinsies.} 3. this butter. {because it’s…

    June 17, 2016 12 Comments
  • grapes and laundry

    picking grapes, sorting the laundry.

    These are things I like to write about: Joy found in spreading salted butter onto already buttery brioche. Joy in picking roadside flowers and sticking them, in all their messy glory, into a jar in…

    June 16, 2016
  • photographing a family vacation.

    I’m not an expert of photography, but over the years I’ve developed a philosophy on picture-taking while on vacation that I thought might be helpful to share.Over the course of a family vacation, it’s possible…

    June 14, 2016 20 Comments
  • visit france.

    Here’s a donkey apropos of nothing at all. But isn’t it fuzzy and cute? I think we could all use an extra dose of that today. I’m working with the French national tourism site,…

    June 13, 2016 5 Comments
  • my week in objects (mostly).

    five little things that made my week.1. this dress.{because i wore it every single day this week.}2. these slippers.{because turns out toes get cold even in june.}3. this mobile.{because as faye would say, bo-ats.}4.…

    June 10, 2016 4 Comments
  • brittany, 9 pm.

    We’ve been singing rounds of Wheels on the Bus, except instead of rousing odes to wheels and windows and wipers, we’re celebrating a rowdy bus of animals: cows and doggies and fish, if you’d like to know.…

    June 9, 2016 12 Comments