What do you all have planned for the weekend? Dave and I will be celebrating out sixth wedding anniversary this…

April 24, 2015

Do you have guilty pleasures for when you find yourself home alone, with no spouse and no (or sleeping) kids? Dave has started…

April 23, 2015

Outline placemats regularly pop up in Montessori classrooms and books, and it’s obvious why: they are a simple tool for…

April 23, 2015

A friend of mine worried over the weekend that she couldn’t take any more photos on her phone — she didn’t…

April 22, 2015

Dave and I did some much needed spring cleaning, and for the first time in my life, I have nothing…

April 20, 2015

We’ll be celebrating Orthodox Easter this weekend, and so I’m getting ready to go and make my mom’s tsoreki. Vegan-ized.…

April 10, 2015

Oh my LORD, y’all. I thought I was down with the crazy rent situation in this city. I spend downtime…

April 9, 2015

Is there anything more mind-numbing, embarrassing, and futile as choosing a white paint for your home? It’s the lazy caricature of the over-wrought…

April 7, 2015

I hope you all had a lovely week. This turned out to be a fairly low key week for us,…

April 3, 2015

Not only is this trick useful, but it’s scientifically proven! Well, I think it is. Dave and I started implementing…

March 30, 2015

How was your week? We spent the week getting re-acclimated to San Francisco after a couple weeks traveling off and…

March 27, 2015

I’ve been making my way through “At Home: A Short History of Private Life” by Bill Bryson this past month,…

March 25, 2015

A friend is working her way through Marie Kondo’s book and so I’ve recently had a lot of conversations about…

March 24, 2015

Ikea even surprised me this time. When you log onto Pottery Barn Kids, Land Of Nod, Restoration Hardware baby&child, and…

February 11, 2015

I keep hearing about this book everywhere, from people with a cultish gleam in their eye. Have you read it?…

January 15, 2015