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in love with a. lincoln.
I suppose Maira Kalman was my first ever favorite artist. As a child, I remember being enchanted by her books: brightly colored dreamscapes that were, if you were lucky, set to the lyrics of a Talking...
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i choo-choo choose you!
Lisa Simpson demonstrated well the dangers of last-minute valentine-ing when she handed this baby over to Ralph Wiggum:This episode is twenty years old! TWENTY!But should you find yourself in a similar...
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a valentine's day PSA:
It's February 14th, so if you haven't already done so, now is the time to place your orders for heart-shaped novelty foods!We have dinner reservations for tonight, but we had a special at-home dinner...
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come clean: some thoughts on young womanhood and the internet.
I'vesaid that one of the best parts of getting older is no longer being younger. You get the gift of insight, but hidden in the corners of that fancily-wrapped package are all of the Oh God, did I...
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for sunday:
Untitled by Cy Twombly available here. "There are so many stories more beautiful than answers,"Mary Oliver, Snake
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icon: anna karina
So last night I was watching an episode of Law & Order SVU (duh), and Ann Margaret was a guest star and I pressed pause and fell down an internet wormhole of Google image searches of women I've...
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come to the light.
Our group of friends has been pretty good about switching off weekends to host parties over the last few weeks, mostly as a way to stave off winter doldrums. I am fully in support of this effort, as...
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eat your greens.
So sometimes if some internal switch somewhere within me has been randomly turned on (or not randomly, if there are ladydrinks around), I can be very gregarious and great at small talk... but most of...
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dreary skies + hemingway's warm weather retreats
It's a gray day here in Chicago, and fittingly, I woke up not feeling 100%. I'm using copious tea with almond milk and pomegranate juice with pellegrino as remedies. Those, and Midnight in Paris--...
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Because I was born with a flair for the melodramatic I have, at times, considered myself to be a poor, lonely orphan with roots that I've dragged aimlessly around behind me rather than having planted...
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for sunday:
“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” Mark Twain....aaaaaand this is why I...
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icon: emily haines.
Franco Deleo for Toro MagazineThe first time I heard Metric was in 2003, the summer after my freshman year of college. Their single was on a CD sampler that came free with whatever ugly outfit I bought...
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tuesday truth.
Just in case you've ever looked at the internet, then looked at your life, and kicked yourself for it (not that this is anything I do, ever), a reminder that not every day is a photo shoot: And that's...
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for sunday:
Hello, friends. I hope your weeks went well. Mine derailed a bit somewhere around Wednesday and I've not had any inspiration for this here blog because my brain has felt like a pile of mush. But here...
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icon: leslie feist
Photographed by Mary Rizzo for Elle Canada, October 2011 I just spent a handful of minutes thumbing through journals from five years ago, retracing pen strokes that were looking desperately for meaning...
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therapy, raisins, what have you.
A Tuesday view, to set the mood. So yesterday evening I got home and melted into the couch, feeling like the energy had been completely drained from my body. Like my insides had crumpled in on...
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launder them linens.
Q: Is there anything lovelier than freshly laundered bed linens? A: No.The arsenal.But there's lots of things lovelier than laundering them yourself-- unless you are one of those lucky kings of the...
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for sunday:
Wesley Bird print available at Society 6.I need to remember that there is a difference between the two. And that it's the wandering, as uncomfortable as it may be, that leads you somewhere true....
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Last Saturday night we went to a fundraiser for Kevin's school, and I am surprised I went because for all of last week--and now this one-- I was in full-on isolation mode for reasons that have yet to...
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a rebuttal (and a reminder).
The previous post: I can already hear my therapist's voice in my head, telling me I need to be more compassionate with myself... so here goes.This is one of the houses from Tumbleweed Tiny House Co.--...
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