I wanted to share a few recommendations from our short weekend in Louisville, Kentucky. It’s only an hour and a half west on I-64, and yet I rarely get over there. It’s such a fun city. We kicked off the weekend on Friday evening with a photo shoot. Todd Pellowe took some photographs of me...
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Listening to: The Wind – Cat Stevens LOVE this post from Simply Lovely about her vacation. She makes a list of highlights from her beach week. My favorite, “Replacing work shoes with flip flops, TV with books and our car with bikes.” -Joslyn of Simply Lovely. Go check her out, with tea of course.
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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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“John & Michael often spent summer days on the lagoon with the boys, swimming or floating most of the time, playing games with the mermaids in the water.”-J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan I just finished this novel The Highest Tide. It’s a lovely, quick read if you are craving salt water like I am. I tend...
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My friend Ami sent this poem around on Friday and I wanted to share: Postcard: October 18/01, NYC On the subway an old Polish man takes me in charge, rides two stops past his own to make certain I find the right place to get off. When I try to thank him, he shakes his...
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We’re shaking sand out of our bags after my first week off in two years. It was a much needed break. I’m really sad that vacation is over. But, like Grandpa used to say, “I’m blessed with work,” so I shouldn’t complain. Here are a few suggestions for your getaway: I’ve been on the road...
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Let’s go to Aarhus, Denmark!One of my favorite bloggers lives there and it sounds just perfect.Check out her images of her enchanting hometown here:Afternoon in Aarhus and also here on Bloesems World Tour.
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My most recent obsession all began with this delightful post from Spagat about her upcoming trip to Procida, the gorgeous Italian island where they filmed The Talented Mr. Ripley. Then it started to grow when I read this post about a trip to Portland. Then I remembered a vacation spot which seemed like a good...
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Yesterday’s snowflake reminded me of a Michael Longley poem called Snow Water. In the poem Longley, a “fastidious brewer of tea, a tea Connoiseur as well as a poet, ” asks the reader to bring him the gift of snow water to make his tea on his 60th birthday. You can listen to him read...
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When I started this blog about 1 year ago on my 30th birthday, I was keeping a promise to myself to write more and trying to break the sometimes isolating experience of being a parent. I wanted to find and share creative endeavors that can get lost to sleep deprivation. This year, inspired by the...
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