So true. It was lovely to have gotten away and it’s lovely to be home. Love this book‘s clever cover art that I snagged from my phone on a rare date-night to the bookstore. It sounds like an interesting premise. {My husband here reading about Hawaii} Other finds from the evening from the spy cam:...
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*Molly Ringwald’s book Getting The Pretty Back is lovely and feels like a conversation with a really genuine, interesting friend. *I’ve worn out the link to this wedding from Leigh Miller. Her work is so inspiring. *I love this post from Hula Seventy: Things I’d Like to Tell My 17-Year Old Self. It’s brilliant and...
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This image popped up on Snippet & Ink a while back and I actually gasped. Love it. Heaven must look something like this. Kindles make it harder for me to snoop in airports and pools to see what people are reading. I still carry around actual books so feel free to snoop away. I’ll make...
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I’m still working on converting my Kentucky cottage into a beach house. As we drove around in beach communities this week, I took quick photos from the passenger seat of details that make a house a beach house, like this one. It’s not always the beach, it’s the little things: like starfish, confederate jasmine on...
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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...
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Drinking: Hot chocolate Listening to: You Are My Everything – Miles Davis {click play below if you want to listen with me while you read} It’s a rainy, Parisian kind of day today which has me thinking of Valentines. Here are some heart-shaped links for you: *Chocolate. Chocolove chocolate bars are my favorite and even...
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Drinking: English Breakfast tea – again. I guess I’m a creature of habit. Listening to: Empire State of Mind – Alicia Keyes Jay-Z {An aside: recently, a witness’s phone rang during their deposition with this song as the ringtone and I had to lean over at the next break and say, “I’m sorry, but was...
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Drinking: water {novel, I know} Listening to: icicles dripping I’m working crazy hours this week, but very lucky to have an oasis on the highway where I can dash off this quick post. The first time I read Max Lucado’s You Are Special to my little girl, I thought the illustrations were a bit odd,...
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Drinking: Harney & Sons Paris Tea Listening to: If I’m honest, How Deep Is Your Love by The Bee Gees I haven’t even finished my Christmas thank you notes, and yet here I am with a wandering eye into Valentines. But seriously, stuff like this will be gone from this etsy shop way before Rite...
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So here goes! My first of 365 tea time posts. 4:00 pm EST each day, I’ll post something for tea time. Day No. 1. Drinking: Yogi Goji Berry Energy Green Tea Listening to: Don’t Rain On My Parade Today’s tea for thought comes from NPR. This week, Robert Siegel interviewed Walter Kirn, the author of...
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