2014 Christmas card photo, taken by my sister The entire holiday season has come and gone, without documentation of any kind in this sp...

Over the weekend, I started my first craft project since buying the house a year and a half ago. With all the wallpaper stripping, floor ...

1 , 2 , 3 , 4 I made the mistake not putting Lizzy in her Halloween pajamas until Halloween actually rolled around. To be fair, I was...

On Wednesday, my family gathered together for my grandmother's funeral. She had been 90 years old, and was living on her own with her...

Peter's family was in town this weekend, and since we won't all be together for Thanksgiving this year, we decided to have an ea...

Tomorrow morning Peter is proctoring an ACT test, and I have GRAND plans for Lizzy and me to go to Wegmans, clean the house, do laundry, ...

I feel extremely embarrassed to admit this, but I haven't finished a book since I went to back to work more than two months ago. Isn...

We discovered the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Gardens at Elm Bank  a couple of weeks ago - absolutely stu...

Making: Excellent use of our new island - it makes our kitchen such a happy place to hang out in Cooking:  This perfectly autumnal  mush...

Ten years ago this fall, I returned home from studying abroad in Italy and wrote out a dozen or so pages of detailed recommendations for ...