For the past month or so I’ve been working on a freelance history project with the Brooklyn Historical Society and a public school in the city. Together with a group of ten 4th and…
Weekends that include an afternoon with a chocolate tart cooling on the table can only be counted as successful. Doesn’t matter how filled up it was with non-chocolatey activities, a weekend that finishes with…
1. this bouquet. {because every time i came back to my apartment this week, it smelled heavenly}. 2. this light bulb. {because we really needed a new one, and we just happened to sit…
A few weeks ago James snapped this blurry instagram of me potting a maidenhair fern in our apartment. It was the weekend and I was working on a story for Gardenista about what a…
Tip #53: Tiny things matter, too.A few weeks ago, I wrote about importance of organizing the insides: all the little spaces in an apartment that you can close a door on and look the…
Here’s a secret: I don’t wash my face. Or I didn’t until recently. I know. I live in the big bad grimy city and I almost never touch soap to these cheeks of mine. …
We woke up Sunday morning to clean sheets. Clean sheets and the newspaper waiting for us. But somewhere between those clean sheets and morning paper something went wrong. Not terribly wrong or even very…
five little things that made my week. 1. these prints. {because even though james took them with an inexpensive digital camera about a million moons ago, they look so pretty, printed}. 2. these cheese…
In December, right before Christmas, our friends Simon and Jenny moved to Hawaii. James and I have been dreaming about a getaway to visit them (and soak in the island air) ever since. An…
Tip #52: Choose your computers carefully.As usual, this is less of a tip and more of a conversation starter. As you’ll learn, I’m not very good at following my own advice, anyway.Big ticket items…