“Give her a room of her own and five hundred a year, let her speak her mind … And she will write a better book one of these days.” –Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own * I learned a long time ago that I’m a nester by nature: I fluff and fuss in the […]
Tag: decorating
Nostalgia in Blue
This morning, I sit still and quiet in my favorite writing chair, watching the early light fill up the room. My eyes flit back, over and over, to a jar of feather-soft blue hydrangeas on the end table, the sun catching in petals. Every time I look at them, the sight pulls me back nine years, to my last summer […]
Making Home
I don’t often share much of my personal, day-to-day life here… But a few weeks ago it occurred to me that my husband and I have lived in our little cottage-in-the-city for just over three years now. In the time since we first moved in, we’ve torn down walls, gutted and remodeled a bathroom AND a kitchen, replaced […]
