Happy Solstice ☀️ Hurrah! The Light returns 🔥

Listening to 4 Non Blondes 1993 “What’s Up?” and thinking it fits 2024. 🫠

I love this harvest pattern in my in-laws wedding china. And thinking of them when we gather today. It’s ritual marking what matters.

Pro tip: when you’re cutting up challah for thanksgiving stuffing, slice two insignificant pieces and make yourself a fluffernutter sandwich. #neverkraft #newenglandcuisine

Another year I am not denied the pleasure of purchasing stalks of Brussels sprouts, AKA troglodyte vegetables.

(Also, why a capital B? Why yet another “s” on the end, which pointedly reminds me of my sibilant impediment.)

Oh, Rachel of December ‘22. You had such high hopes! Today is 11/21/24 and you just opened this section for the very first time—then closed it & added it to the paper recycling pile (of very similar clippings.) Ah, the letting go.
#pilesofpaper #thingstoread

New Hampshire native true confession: DD coffee is awful. But if you need a vehicle for mid-morning caffeine, their Bold Breakfast Black Tea will get it done.

My beginning as a writer was as an author of letters. In return,I kept nearly every one I received. Now decades later I’m returning them to their originators—this bunch will be hand delivered at my college reunion. 💌 They’re friendly windows into the past, one of the gifts of living into middle age

Tell me you stayed at an Airbnb without actually telling me you stayed at an AirBnb.

My current read. Welcoming, encouraging, challenging and super useful. Thanks Bec and Chris & the Berkeley Public Library 📚 💚

Thank you, Sandra Cisneros 🙏🏼

“When in doubt,
Heed the clouds.”