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...
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...
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...
Drinking: I broke down and had a coke. It’s like kryptonite.
Listening to: I Can Hear Music – The Beach Boys
Anne Ruthmann {love her} posted words yesterday that really lifted me. She has had to move around every two years. She writes, “You make plans. You make back-up plans. You make just-in-case plans. No matter how...
I picked up Roger Rosenblatt’s memoir Making Toast at Morris Bookshop. The cover painting, Still Life with Kettle by Lennart Anderson is what first caught my eye. When you open the flap, you learn that the author and his wife moved in with their son-in-law and three grandkids after their 38-year old daughter Amy collapsed and...
Drinking: Fondo Paez Coffee
Listening to: Coldplay shuffle beginning with Yellow from Parachutes {which I bought for 6 pounds at Virgin Records on Oxford Street in London while on my honeymoon} and ending with Lost by Coldplay & Jay-Z.
My day job has a large listening and giving advice component and I hope that is part of my calling....
