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  • Slow Fall

    A few nights ago, B finished dinner early, but she wasn’t quite ready for bed. So we sat on the floor of our living room in front of the Christmas tree, classical radio playing softly in the background, and read… Continue reading

    Slow Fall

  • Building a Little Library

    The book situation in our house has always been a bit…precarious, mostly thanks to my habit of acquiring more books than our shelves can hold. Josh keeps books, too, but he’s much better about borrowing from the library and only holding… Continue reading

    Building a Little Library

  • The Kindness of Strangers

    Thank you for all your kind thoughts and wishes about my previous post. I’m thrilled to be moving on to the next stage in my writing adventure. After I finalized things with Laura, I took one last swing through revision-land… Continue reading

    The Kindness of Strangers

  • Remembrance

    Veterans’ Day is one of those holidays that are easy to forget. Josh and I have the day off from school today, and as we were driving to a local coffee shop for a leisurely breakfast, we reflected on our… Continue reading

    Remembrance

  • Wedding dress, 1920

    I promise this isn’t going to become a blog about weddings. But it turns out that when you’re planning a wedding, you end up thinking about weddings a lot. Sometimes it’s fun, and sometimes you want to plug up your… Continue reading

    Wedding dress, 1920

  • Afternoon Adventure: The Tavern Club

    Happy December! I’ve just returned from a whirlwind trip home to Cleveland for Thanksgiving, and it was wonderful to see family and take long walks and eat lots of delicious (modern) food. Around the holidays we often reflect on the… Continue reading

  • Spiced, stewed pears

    Thank you for all your wonderful comments on our news! It can be scary to put big announcements out into this void of the internet, so it meant a lot to read your good wishes. We’re knee-deep in fall over… Continue reading

  • Hand wash only (II)

    A few days ago, I started thinking about the difficulties of looking at the past through rose-colored glasses. Let’s face it: life without electricity, equal voting rights, or antibiotics would be way harder. To explore this point further, let’s look… Continue reading

  • Hand wash only (I)

    It’s easy to wax nostalgic about the “good old days,” that halcyon golden age when kids didn’t do drugs or drink underage, and life was simpler, without cell phones and social media complicating things. (Yes, I’m guilty of this!) There… Continue reading

  • Devil’s cake no. 1

    Yesterday I celebrated my birthday! I turned 27, just a few weeks after this blog turned 2. In between melting in the 90-degree heat and dashing through torrential rainstorms (yes, it was an eventful day, weather-wise), I enjoyed a pastry… Continue reading