Dr. Maya Angelou’s 80th birthday is today. When I was 16, I lucked into two tickets to attend a reading with Maya Angelou. I wrote to her and invited her to come to our home for dinner after the reading. Can you imagine? I just put it out there. I was thinking, I...
…the sweetest family.
Thanks so much to this amazing family for sharing some time with me today. I love these people so much. Mom is an incredible writer, mother, friend. She and her husband have been together for 10 years and are still so in love, you feel all bubbly just to be with them.
And their...
Just as I was closing the laptop lid around 3 am after blogging about taking time to watch my daughter grow, I heard her cry out. When I lifted her out of her bed, I could tell right away that she had a fever. Poor baby. It’s been a quiet day and strange to...
My computer is maxed out — at capacity with photos and music and Tolle/Chopra/Dyer downloads to listen to when I am traveling for work. I’ve been trying to make room by deleting duplicates and moving things over to an external hard drive. I’ve taken 18,000 photographs in the past year, many of them delete-worthy....
I found these post-it style vocabulary cards on the bargain table of a local bookstore in both French and Italian.
The graphics, fonts and color combinations are really great.
I’ve had these awkwardly shaped frames from Target without anything to go in them..until now.
It’s a fresh summer day just passing them in the hall.
This site looks like an endless source of creative ideas for living in small spaces.
My little girl loves Lola at the Library by Anna Mcquinn and Rosalind Beardshaw.
Because of Lola, my not yet 3 year old campaigned for and received her first purple library card tonight.It’s a proud day.
For the first swipe of the library card, she checked out Minfong Ho’s Peek, Jez Alborough’s Yes,Laura Numeroff’s If You Give...
Painter Faye Christian Phillips told me about Karin Jurick’s work featured in this slideshow below.The music, I believe, is by Stan Getz who is played so often in our house, I feel like he lives with us. The work is great, but the presentation is even better. It feels like a rainy Sunday afternoon.ps-...
