On overheard conversations, the real cost of blogging, a cozy Dorset novel, and a Ralph Lauren video that will make you want to mend something What a weekend. Sausage races, the Brewers winning Game Two of the World Series, the farmers market, dinner with friends, baking, and life in general. I am going into this…
Skillet enchiladas, butternut squash pizza, three books worth your time, and a few links worth clicking The weather this week has been exactly what I want fall to be. Cool, crisp mornings where you actually need a jacket, sunny afternoons that manage to be warm without being hot, and evenings cool enough to sit around…
Gifts for book lovers and bibliophiles, with the books I am giving this year, cozy things for the reading chair and a few treats for the library lover. I will read anything. Cereal boxes, the back of the shampoo bottle, the little card that comes with a bouquet. I grew up in a house where…
A heavy weekend watching France, a fire in the fireplace at home, a romance for fans of Addie LaRue, and an hour with Stephen Fry I have been watching scenes this weekend from my beloved France, specifically Limoges burning. On Saturday, at the end of a protest, a group of hooded rioters broke into the…
Pumpkin lasagna, sheet pan chicken, three October reads, and a Stockholm home with a box bed Good morning, friends. Happy Friday. Is it still fall? The weather here has been so beautiful this week, warm and sunny more like a late spring afternoon than October. I am not complaining. The view from the porch stopped…
Kate Heartfield’s historical fiction, Lucy Worsley at Hampton Court, and a cosy autumn weekend Good morning, friends. Happy Columbus Day. I work for myself, which means technically it could be a holiday for me too. I am choosing to count it as one, at least until the gift guides pull me back in, which, knowing…
Clodagh McKenna at Highclere Castle, Hay-on-Wye, London crafts, and a cosy autumn weekend Good morning, friends. Pumpkin soup, apple crisp, a cosy throw, a new book, and a comfy chair. That is my plan for tonight, and I will not apologize for a single minute of it. After a morning in the garage (yes, the…
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…
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 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…
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…
Recipes for the table, three books worth clearing your schedule for, and a few things making this last stretch of summer better. Summer is slowly winding down, although you would not know it from the weather. This week, sitting on the porch after my morning walk, I heard a school bus rumbling down the road…
