I have a love-hate relationship with those holiday letters people send out. On the one hand, I really like hearing how my people’s lives have changed over a year. On the other hand, for some reason, I could never write one myself. I think it’s performance anxiety - a fear that [...]

On a school trip when I was in elementary school we started at a brook that ran into town, climbed through the culvert under the road, and into the woods following the water up the mountain. It was spring, just before school let out and the water was cold, but it was fun. [...]

I successfully upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 today. It was easy.

Congratulations are in order for Etsy and their entry into the big time. My mom’s a brilliant artist, with a number of brilliant artist friends, and there was a time, a few years back when one of my own friends and I hatched an Etsy-like scheme of our own. We got pretty far [...]

I’ve been very into advent calendars since I was little. Maybe it’s because with a December first birthday, they always seemed made especially for me - linking the two best times of the year, birthday and Christmas. I never could quite get my mom to understand that an advent calendar is one of [...]

I’ve been a fan of Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty for awhile. I think it’s an important message to send to women and men alike. All shapes, sizes, and colors are beautiful and sexy. Not enough people realize the amount of processing goes into making the women we see on TV and [...]

With things like this video in the world, how can a girl resist another casual friday? Indeed, I might have to become a regular after all.

A few of my favorite lyrics:
Where my wasps at?
We keeps it real the old money way.
We might be vanilla but our labs are chocolate.
The tea in the parlor makes [...]

“And why don’t I glow in the dark?”
I don’t usually follow casual friday being as serious a girl as I am. But this week, for some reason, I was inspired. Things in Rubbers brightened an otherwise trying Thursday afternoon, but I couldn’t quite bring myself to devote a whole post to it.
10,000 Reasons [...]