“Haven’t you already watched that movie?” Hubby points to the DVD of An Education on the coffee table. Yes, and this afternoon I fell in love with it again. Carey Mulligan is perfect, the story brilliant. Glimpses of London and Paris in the 60’s, the fashion– it’s all stunning, elegant, and entirely alluring. Side note: [...]

The Sketchbook Project: “It’s like a road trip, but with sketchbooks.” This initiative is just one of the light bulbs floating above the brilliant minds of Art House Co-Op and Brooklyn Art Library. Sign up, get a sketchbook, fill it up, send it back, see it off, share it with the world. And then be inspired [...]

After a long month of “replacing my normal life with word docs, thesaurus apps, inner dialogue, pinterest boards created for fictional people, and more coffee consumption than usual,” I finally earned my nano badge! 30 days, 50,000 words, hundreds of pages, thousands of notes, two macbooks, lots of lattes, two labyrinths (one metaphorical), one jungle [...]

I know. It’s been awhile. See, my excuse is that when I moved into a new house, I thought about also moving into a new space in the blogoverse. Which I am still considering, actually, but this will be a gradual process if and when it occurs. In the meantime, I’ll try not to let [...]

Last weekend, Joelly & I picked out paint colors for the new house. According to Martha, these are “18 go-with-everything, paint-anything, put-anywhere hues that will work in any room.” We used this palette as our inspiration, and, after a bit of deliberation, our final lineup is…(ahem): Living room & Bathroom: “Rope” (light grey. Refer to [...]

Can we please just stop everything and talk about how swooningly mesmerizing Wes Anderson’s new film Moonrise Kingdom is? I mean, with the campy aesthetic, existential child actors, 1960′s feel-good retro nostalgia, a plot line to root for, all saturated in that quintessential Wes Anderson yellow undertone oozing with hipster appreciation? Seriously, that yellow! That [...]

Two years ago, I married my bff Joel. : ) For our first “paper” anniversary last year, I made this catalog of love, which kept a bit of the literary flair we threaded into our wedding. This year, I echoed this theme again, although I didn’t set out to intentionally. I just happened to come [...]

Glaciers is filled with kaleidoscopic pleasures. Using prose as clear as pure, cold air, Alexis Smith moves the narrative vertically as well as horizontally, each ticking minute yielding more insights into a young woman’s life. The past, present, and imaginary future stream into beautifully unstable geometries. Line by line, in and out of time, this [...]

I confess, I was skeptical. Just as I was with Harry Potter and any other fastly trendy young adult series throwing their covers and following industries in my discerning face. I can’t say that I owe any apology statements to a certain vampire series; however, with Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy, I certainly do. I [...]

Look what came in the mail from my oh-so-thoughtful Hannah friend! The back of the mug lists the scores for the whole Scrabble alphabet, and the mug’s bottom is stamped with a double letter score. I totally love it (obvs) and am adding it to my work desk mug collection for my daily dose of [...]