Happy New Year! I hope you made very merry over the holidays. So much so that you’re just now turning to New Year’s Resolutions. I haven’t made a single one, but I have enjoyed dipping into Susannah Conway’s Unraveling Workbook for 2014. The workbook is a free download and gives you lots of writing prompts [...]
Merry Christmas all! Here’s hoping you’re resting from your holiday labors this weekend. Feet up, book in hand, take-out menus or a no-fuss slow cooker recipe nearby. Me? I’m perusing a new collection of essays on knitting, finalizing Peru plans and playing with the kids when they’re around. Just doing my best to slow down [...]
At a recent gathering a friend mentioned how much she was anticipating Christmas and another responded that as a child she could hardly sleep because of the anticipation. I remember feeling that way as a kid, but as a grownup it’s easy to become more anxious than excited about Christmas. I still lose sleep, but [...]
Many of you will read this post another day. Today you are participating in the new-in-my-lifetime holiday ritual known as Black Friday. Choosing to go out shopping on the busiest shopping day of the year is almost unfathomable to me. The LAST thing I want to do after cooking and conversing and cleaning all week [...]
So then there’s the day your daughter’s work and name makes it into the New York Times and you marvel at life’s unexpected blessings.
This is the time of year when we often get the chance to talk about things we’re grateful for. Do you have a regular gratitude practice otherwise? Or is counting your blessings a seasonal novelty like cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie? Years ago I started a practice of writing down good things that had happened [...]
When we were young and broke it was a challenge to fill our empty walls with something more than inexpensive framed posters. We actually rented our first piece of original art through a rent-to-buy program at the Oakland Museum. That program has since been discontinued (though SFMOMA still runs one), but I’m grateful that it [...]
Yep. They’re back. Found them in the pocket of an apron I wore briefly on the day they went missing when I made dinner last night–safely out of Mercury Retrograde. Oh, and Miss Venezuela won the Miss Universe pageant.
This week there was mischief afoot. On Tuesday I lost my keys for good, as best I can tell. I remember using them last when I came into my house after walking with a friend and threw them in the little pink tray on the shelf above my desk. But Wednesday morning the keys [...]
If you’re design-inclined and traveling to New York or Boston in the next two months, you’ll probably enjoy one or both of the shows I saw when I wasn’t ogling leaves in New England. The first is the beautiful John Singer Sargent Watercolors exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston which showcases ninety-two watercolors [...]
