speaking of heaven... 1 May 2013 | 04:00 pm

this week has been difficult. pat and lill and grae have all been on separate trips, so esmé and i have been on the verge of tears ever since they left. and by verge, i mean everything makes us cry. i...

of note... 24 Apr 2013 | 06:52 am

stopped me in my tracks. i wish i'd written it. also, my jakarta home and a few of my words are on design mom today. i like that gabrielle very much. and the weirdest news of all? this. i like thos...

five minutes in heaven... 24 Apr 2013 | 06:24 am

part of my job as a mother is to wake up my girls on school days or swim meet mornings. i know just how to whisper to each of them to begin their days right. but this rarely happens. because the morn...

vine... 5 Feb 2013 | 08:25 am

the only thing better to me than instagram is a moving instagram. short and sweet and ripe with juicy bits of meant to be forgotten and embarrassing and vertigo-inducing and random albeit sometimes pr...

things i find on my desktop... 23 Dec 2012 | 07:42 pm

five things in the past five minutes... 14 Dec 2012 | 07:28 am

1. i thought to myself, chin heavy in hand, "huh. i could paint that." (dumb.) 2. i thought to myself with much more optimism, "maybe this would be easier." (still dumb.) 3. i have been searching fo...

stars 2 Dec 2012 | 07:44 pm

so i heard this song and couldn't help the ache in my gut that this was a song written for me. or perhaps for those i love so hard that i already miss them. you know that feeling, yes? i know you prob...

the facebook 22 Nov 2012 | 12:28 pm

so lillie and grae finally jumped into the facebook. i, of course, am anti...as i seem to be with a few deep pools of disconnected connectivity. what can i tell you? i am a selective drowner. the min...

three words... 9 Nov 2012 | 05:30 pm

i and miss and pat. i didn't so much this week - is that bad to admit? - because we were busy and i never really see him during the week. but it's friday and right about now he would be walking throu...

down to earth 8 Nov 2012 | 12:58 pm

whenever anyone pre-introduces me to someone i'm sure to like, they seem to always use some form of the phrase "you're going to love her. she's so down to earth." and when this happens, i seem to alw...