“I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.” — Mitch Albom It’s been quiet here at alpha // whiskey // foxtrot for the last few days, and that’s because I’ve spent those days in the company of my […]
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the self-confidence of sunlight …
The morning sun presses into the room without waiting to be invited. It does not knock, or use a door, or worry whether it will be welcomed. It simply pushes in, through each crack and hole and opening, as if it already knows that it belongs… …And so it does. ❤
Flashback: the Post That Started It All …
Exactly one year ago today, I began a little blog that I hoped might help me love my town better. I never expected — ever — that I’d still be blogging 365 days later. Can I be honest? It’s been a messy year. I’ve made good decisions and bad ones. Trusted people I shouldn’t have. Had the good […]
Flashback: Gold Leaves, Ginkgo Trees & a Stranger’s Blessing
This post was first published on October 30, 2014 — almost exactly a year ago … It still makes me smile. ❤ /// Sometimes, the best moments are unplanned. Yesterday, in a sudden burst of spontaneity between running errands, I deviated from my plan for the day. Driving down 581, I swung the car onto the exit […]
Rainsong
As I write these words, it’s night, and I’m upstairs in a little room tucked under the eaves, listening to the rain drum the roof just above my head. I love the way a summer rain sounds silver, even in the dark. Oh, Summer: sing me to sleep. ❤
A {Nook} of One’s Own
“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 […]
A little summer happiness on the mountain: wood-fired pizza and a handpicked bouquet
It’s been a long time since I gave my city some love here. Those who’ve followed alpha // whiskey // foxtrot since its inception know that I first began this blog in an attempt to love my mountain town better. And I do love it here — most of the time — but every once in […]
A Summer Obsession: Cold-Brewed Coffee at Home
I don’t usually write many posts that could be classified under the “lifestyle” or “food and drink” headings, but every once in awhile, I stumble over some little comestible or beverage that’s just too good *not* to share. So I hope my more serious readers will forgive me if I spend the next 400 words […]
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 […]
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