vacation

  • Personal reading history

    Happy Valentine’s Day! I’ve been hunkered down at home with a nasty virus, and the wintry mix outside isn’t doing much to make things feel more festive. So instead, I’ve been daydreaming about our summer honeymoon in England. Josh and… Continue reading

    Personal reading history

  • Colonial Craft: Pomanders

    Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and that you’re settling into 2014. I spent Christmas with my family in Ohio, listening to my dad’s beloved Ray Conniff Singers and cooking up a storm. We spent… Continue reading

  • Afternoon Adventure: Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park

    About a month ago I met up with my parents in Hyde Park, New York, for a weekend of sight-seeing and poking around historic places (this is the order of the day with my family). After touring two painters’ homes… 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

  • Blueberry picking (and muffins)

    It’s been two weeks since we returned from vacation in Canada, and I can’t stop thinking about it. Even though I’ve since joined my parents for a weekend in upstate New York. Even though Josh and I have entertained and… Continue reading

  • Afternoon Adventure: Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village

    As a teenager I went to an all-girls school, one steeped in tradition and programs that recalled English prep schools. One of the big ones was chapel, where we heard guest speakers and senior speeches. Before the program began, we… Continue reading

  • Away

    For the next few weeks I’ll be away on vacation with my family. Swimming, canoeing, reading, and cooler weather (fingers crossed) await! I’ll be back at the beginning of August. In the meantime, you can read posts from last year’s… Continue reading

  • Himmel torte

    We just returned from a week in Maine with Josh’s family. A gorgeous lake house near the town of Casco served as our home base, and we spent the week swimming, kayaking, reading, and playing games. The men-folk cooked almost… Continue reading

  • Boiled ham (or, a foray into Eastern Europe)

    Sometimes I think way too hard about how to use up leftovers. The potential for waste bothers me. If we have half a head of red cabbage sitting in the crisper because Josh realized he really, really hates cabbage after… Continue reading