This week, Lisa Hannigan’s Ocean & A Rock has been on repeat in my car. It is so well written and perfect for the crisp air and sweaters and gloves. This is my husband’s busiest time of year. Mine too, I guess. It’s easy to feel an ocean and a rock away. But George, it’s...
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My husband brought home several bound volumes of magazines from 1959 {there are perks to dating a guy who knows his way around all of the special collection libraries}. There is nothing hotter than a phone call like this, “hey, I’m in the fine arts library. Can I bring you something?” SUPER HOT. I embrace...
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Here’s a new post for Skirt!
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Love this shoot from the amazing Davina Fear. It captures that feeling of just moving in together and so much more. I love the dance photos – light and movement – the ones taken outside the window, and from a distance. So great. I’ve been experimenting lately with setting up scenes inside the house to...
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I discovered that someone I have long admired for her many talents writes in a thoughtful blog. In looking through her past posts, I wanted to share this inspiring eulogy. I can only hope to live my life with such grace. And, when you finish the box of Kleenex, her post here is so clever...
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From the NYTimes weddings section on Sunday about the couple’s first date: “It was pouring when they left the club. Mr. Blangiardo offered to find Ms. Chu a cab, but she was more interested in his parked yellow BMW motorcycle. Unknown to him, she had a motorcycle license in California, where she lived before moving...
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It rained for days. You packed tiny speakers and plugged them into a discman that played this CD. I looked down at the street, that looked much like this one, and felt like my heart would fall into the river drop by drop if I couldn’t stay with you. Years later, you played this song...
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After two years of Johnson & Johnson, Graco and Pampers, it’s hard to remember that before Elmo, my first date with my husband was on the left bank in Paris. Having a child has been a great love affair as well. But it’s hard to carve out emotional space and time that is just for...
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About once every 6 months or so, our 1300 square foot stone cottage starts to swell. You can almost see the house’s pulse from the street. I re-arrange and re-organize and purge clutter and try to set up new play areas for my daughter’s toys, the dog’s toys, the cat’s neuroses, my husband’s books and...
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