What I packed for a week in Mexico
We celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary with an overdue tropical getaway. After a lot of discussion and many nights of scrolling through travel sites, we decided to call the travel agent who booked our Disney trip. Jennie designed the perfect trip for us,...
My Favorite Healthy Smoothie Bowls
I LOVE A SMOOTHIE BOWL. I used to think the whole idea of a smoothie in a bowl was weird and didn't understand it. They seemed so unnecessarily complicated with all the layered fruit and coconut and chia seeds and I wondered why people bothered. Now I'm totally on...
Juicy — What I Like About Juicing
Hello friends, fruit lovers. When I was a child, the only juice in our house was orange juice. It was made from a can of frozen concentrate, the cheap generic brand. And my dad watered it down. We drank it only at breakfast. Fast forward to today, our grocery list...
Revisiting My Work From Art School
I recently found some of my old artwork from college. And by "found", I mean drove to the house of my roommate's parents, and took them home to my house. The art, not the parents. Why my artwork wasn't moldering in my own parents' house, I can't tell you. All these...
Happy New Year: Free Calendar Download
Hello! The first thing I realized this morning, the first day of 2024, is that I needed a new calendar. I made this real quick and printed it out and will hang it on my fridge. Feel free to download and print it yourself. I used 13 x 19 paper but you could reduce it...
Book Reviews of 2023
Tom Lake Ann Patchett I love Ann Patchett but had a hard time getting into this. In fact, by the time I met with my book club to discuss it, I was only half way through! I finished it two days after that and wondered if it was actually better to read the book after...