Happy Saturday! Winter has arrived in earnest here in Brooklyn, and I am happy to report that my sole accomplishments thus far today have included watching movies, eating way too much comfort food, and staying indoors. It’s currently 13° F (and likely feels colder). Somehow spending the day under a blanket seemed like the most…
She loves the smell of warm coffees, bloomed roses and new beginnings. – Sonia Azalia What is it about new beginnings that we love so much? Perhaps it’s the hope and the promise of an unknown future, a rebirth of the awareness that we have a choice about who we are and how we live. …
It seems a lifetime (or two) has happened in the interim, but I used to write a weekly post entitled “7 Quick Takes Friday.” It was part of a link-up that Jennifer Fulweiler at Conversion Diary started years and years ago, and when her schedule became too busy for her to continue to host it,…
The long, dark, and extremely chilly days of late autumn/early winter are finally creeping into the city. Sunny days are shorter – and fewer between – as time moves forward towards the winter solstice, and most mornings I wake up before the sun, listening to one of my favorite sounds: the clinging and clanging of…
I really need to invest in rain boots. It struck me yesterday as I was walking home in the rain, that rain boots really are going to be a necessity at some point. Because by the time I got home, there was no other word for what was happening with my shoes and socks than…
