five little things that made my week. 1. these furry animals. {because here’s to a little makeshift “decorating.”} 2. this tiny harmonica. {because faye is totally obsessed.} 3. this rug.{because it came just before the holidays and…
I’ve said before: I’m not a clothes horse, or a fashionista, or fabulously stylish. I want to feel good in my clothes, absolutely. I want to feel beautiful and comfortable every day. (Small request,…
We’re not a totally zero-waste household—something to strive for!—, but James and I have adopted a number of habits that have us reducing the amount of waste that we produce and this year we’re striving…
In a tiny apartment or otherwise, let’s all agree that the excess of the holiday season followed by the promise of a new year creates perhaps the perfect incentive for paring down, reevaluating our…
I’m an admitted resolution junkie. On New Years Eve, I filled up three pages in a tiny journal with ideas for self-improvement and goal-getting that run the gamut from utterly attainable to Pollyanna dream-girl bonkers.…
Woody Guthrie’s list of resolutions from 1942. Here’s to hoping, nearly three-quarters of a century later.Wrote a list my own self; hope you guys do too.Happiest New Year, friends.Found on Open Culture. …
twelve little things that made my year. 1. chickadees in january. 2. board butter in february. 3. a new-to-us table brought home in march. 4. a cot for a couch in april. 5. lilacs in may. 6. a…
Last night, Faye’s snoring reached near comic levels. There were great blustering intakes of breath followed by high pitched whistles that sounded like a sound effect borrowed from a Disney cartoon and not something that…
As a child on Christmas Eve, I’d lie awake, in keeping with the cliché, waiting to see if I’d catch a glimpse of Santa Claus and his reindeer dashing across the night sky. I’d…
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…