Tomorrow at 8:04 pm it is officially fall, which my calendar and my ancestors have been waiting for all summer Tomorrow at exactly 8:04 pm, it is fall. I will be waiting for it the way Charlie Brown waited for the Great Pumpkin. Faithfully, hopefully, and probably a little foolishly. Sadly there will not be…
A caterpillar, a dance, a castle, and everything in between, with Kim and Juliet How can one be so excited by a caterpillar? I have been asking myself that all week. As you know, the circle, as I affectionately call it, is my pollinator garden, designed to bloom from early spring through fall and to…
Hello friends, it’s Friday, though I suspect you don’t need me to remind you the weekend is almost here. It’s still hot, as it is in many of your towns too. Don’t let that get you down. Light your fall candle, drink your pumpkin spiced latte, wrap yourself in your lightest cashmere in the air…
A closet saga with a happy ending, a Moncrief London bag, a novel about a girl who cannot stop moving, and a Hackney home that is all frames. The closet pole is back in the wall. Three extra holes had to be patched after a couple of false starts, but it is reinforced now with…
A cooler Saturday morning, a broken closet bar, a Dublin home tour, and a man who has lived alone in the Scottish Highlands for forty years It is Saturday morning and I am having a lie in. I had every intention of getting up and walking (it is cooler this morning than it has been,…
Butternut squash recipes, cider pot roast, three great reads, and the articles I can’t stop thinking about Life lately has been…a lot. I have to be honest, it is hard to show up here every day and know what to say because it feels like lately there has been a series of life changing events…
A wild storm, a pumpkin candle already lit, Christmas in September, and a Paris novel I could not put down. It is Labor Day, summer last hurrah. The pumpkin candle is already lit and I have zero regrets. The weekend was busy but fun, with a wild storm thrown into the mix. We had been…
A week of happy, sad, and everything in between, with Kim and Juliet Good morning, friends. It is time for Weekend Meanderings with Kim and Juliet. Join us as we share all the things that piqued our interest this week. I won’t lie, this past week has been all over the place. We celebrated my…
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Comfort recipes, three fall reads, and a few good things as summer turns the corner It has been a week. A long, heavy one, and I will share more when we talk on Weekend Meanderings. For now I am home, which is where I needed to be, and I am happy to be back. Labor…
Four house tours, two films worth watching, and fall finds from TJ Maxx Good morning, friends. It is Saturday. Pour a cup of coffee, tea or chocolate and sit for a spell. It has been a hard week. I am with my brother-in-law, who has Alzheimer’s, and caregiving at this level is something I have…
As many of you know from my posts last week, my stepfather Gary passed away, and I have been sharing and navigating that here on the blog. If you missed those posts, you can read A Life Well Lived and Liminality: The In-Between. Grief does not keep a schedule. Your world stops, but the world…
Two films, an English river cottage, and why I am waiting for the light Good morning, friends. It is time for Weekend Meanderings with Kim and Juliet. Join us as we share all the things that caught our eye and piqued our interest this week. Is it just me, or does anyone else get something…
