+ Flowers: Pluck them from your own garden, send them from afar via a florist, make it a posey or a spray for the mantle, don’t worry that it seems cliché. It will be…
I’m flying out to Oregon this morning to see a brand-new baby niece born on Saturday. My little guys will stay behind in Brooklyn on this visit, so in anticipation of spending whole hours…
five little things that made my week: 1. this gift of homemade za’atar. {and putting it on everything.} 2. these blue silks. {because this silks club has been pure magic for my kids (okay,…
Survival Tip #160: Revisit the spaces you’ve resigned yourself to. Next month, it will be four years since we first rented this apartment. Four years since, while pregnant with Faye, I climbed onto the…
This post is sponsored by Stowaway, a right-sized cosmetics company. It doesn’t happen very often, but every once in a while, I like being told what to do. There are some things that I…
Four things to do today to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. + Listen to the Seeing White podcast. I’ve mentioned this here before, but it has been the single…
five little things that made my week 1. this last blossom. {because all the best things are fleeting.} 2. this second round of blooms. {smaller than the first, but twice as many.} 3. less…
This post is sponsored by thredUP, a secondhand shopping website selling high-quality, like-new clothes for a fraction of the price. On any given day of January you might find me opening my tiny notebook and…
January. Such a paradoxical month, isn’t it? At the same time that I’m raring to start fresh and forge ahead, I’m tempted to cozy up, hunker down, and nap through the duration. You too?…
For all of its loveliness, January is a month in New York that requires some amount of defending against. To fend off the cold we need extra layers of wool. To combat the blues…