Drinking: English Breakfast Tea
Listening to: February – Dar Williams
“The garden had reached the time when every day and every night it seemed as if Magicians were passing through it drawing loveliness out of the earth and the boughs with wands. It was hard to go away and leave it all, particularly as Nut had actually...
She sings a song around the house and in the bath sometimes that she learned at preschool. J for Jesus. O is for others and Y for you. Joy. When I lose my path to joy, I retrace her steps.
I found this clipping in an old journal today that I needed:
“Hope without action is...
Drinking: coffee from the office kitchen
Listening to: Mushaboom – Feist
I love Michelle Slatalla’s article, 10 Secrets of an Unflappable Working Mom, in the March Real Simple. For 5 years, I’ve read everything from Working Mother Magazine to self-help books on this topic and this may be the most succinct collection of tips that actually...
Drinking: Fondo Paez Coffee @ home
Listening to: Hurricane Season and Insomniac, both by Billy Pilgrim. {In a quick search to find out what happened to them, I realize one of the members, Kristian Bush, is now part of Sugarland and the other member Andrew Hyra has a solo career.}
We came in the door...
…is that I like to amass cameras. Epiphanie bags is having a contest.
The winner can choose between a $2,500 gift certificate for Southwest Airlines OR a Canon 5D Mark II. I shoot with the latter and it is heaven and, to put it frankly, I want another one. What can I say? I’m a...
I love this advice from the nanny Ligaya in Making Toast:
“No one outside the family could have felt Amy’s death more acutely. Yet what she said to Harris, and to the rest of us, was dispassionate: ‘You are not the first to go through such a thing, and you are better able to handle it...
*This weekend I am looking forward to checking out The Art of the Idea & How It Can Change Your Life – by John Hunt. Sam Nhlengethwa’s artwork in the book is as inspired as the text.
Here is a link to an interactive excerpt. All profits from the book go to Room 13, “a...
Drinking: throat comfort tea
Listening to: music in the car
Have you seen these cloth covered editions of Penguin Classics? I took this from my phone at Anthro a while back because Lord knows they will snatch a camera out of your hand there if they catch you. They sell them at Morris Bookshop, too...
Drinking: Coffee from a thermos, which even in an office feels like camping.
Listening to: I Melt With You – Modern English
On Sunday morning at Doodles Restaurant, I Melt With You came on the radio and the entire kitchen staff started singing along. Loudly. Sincerely. With Dance Moves. It was day-changing. I love it when things...
Dear talented, affordable carpenter who doesn’t mind being licked by a small dog while you work,
These images from Style File are the dream. Can you do this for me? I’ll provide the books. xoxo Tea
