On Core Memories
In an Instagram reel a few days ago, I said I thought that the idea that we can influence our kids’ core memories is bullshit…
Home Office Design: Reality Bites
This probably won’t be the last moodboard you see for our eventual home office - God knows how many iterations we’re going to go through before finalizing our furniture and layout choices - but being able to post them here with a narrative is actually really helpful for thinking through everything.
I still like the theory behind my original design, but upgrading to a wider desk to acommodate an external monitor means…
DC’s Franciscan Monastery in Spring
Nestled in a residential corner of NE DC near Catholic University, the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America is one of the most beautiful local spots to visit in the spring. The upper grounds are carpeted in tulips of all colors with and redbuds, dogwoods, and Kwanzaan cherry trees dotted between the cloister walls. Follow the curving path down into the lower garden and you’re surrounded by azaleas…
Saturday evening, mid-April
We’re arrayed across the couch in our jamma jams - which is what Claire used to call pajamas; we have no idea why, as no one in our family calls them that, but she’s recently graduated to “PJs” and I’m grieving the loss of the uniquely toddler-Claire nomenclature - watching The Wizard of Oz, my father’s favorite movie…