I love this sweet hat from the Purl Bee. If I knew how to knit, and if I had just a bit more free time, and if I were a person who wore knit caps, I’d make one.
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I love this poster, which was originally printed–though not really used–in Britain as a morale booster during WWII. (Here is the story of the poster.) Since its rediscovery many years after the end of the war, facsimiles of the poster have been selling like hotcakes, and if you browse design websites, which I do, you’ll […]
A totally fascinating look at the evolutionary origins of good (social, empathetic, kind, joyful, warm, selfless) human behavior–as well as the psychology of facial expressions and non-verbal communication. Get your pen out for underlining! Here’s a random smattering of interesting info from the book: Women laugh more than men. Laughter and talking happen in different […]
When I got a message from Kristijana at the Mommy Blog saying that she’d really loved Everyone Is Beautiful and that she’d be posting a review soon, I made some assumptions. I know she has a toddler and a baby, and when my kids were that age, I was lucky if I wasn’t wearing my […]
I had many thoughts at the movie theater last night as my sister and I wept our way through the end of Marley & Me–thoughts about devotion and loyalty, about family and marriage, about pets I have loved and lost, about how much I love stories that validate my own life choices. But one of […]
It always makes me kind of sad to see them go. If it were up to me, I’d leave them up all year–along with the blow-up snowman. But I’ve been informed that’s too eccentric. Maybe 2009 will be so awesome I won’t even miss them.
Mike Putnam is a friend of my sweet husband’s from college. When I hear about Mike from back in the day, it’s usually stories about diving off trestle bridges and other crazy things college boys do. So how amazed was I to find out that he is, in addition to being a veterinarian and former […]
This print is from an Etsy shop called Sure As Blue. They have lots of pretty things.
–and found myself awake in the wee hours, long after everybody else was back asleep–cruising around on ETSY looking at beautiful, handmade things and wishing I were an artist with studio full of windows and sunlight. Here are some photos from a series called Through The Viewfinder at a shop called Scarlet Beautiful.
Just got word of a terrific review for Everyone Is Beautiful from Booklist, which calls it a “superbly written novel filled with unique and resonant characters.” Please see the whole delicious concluding sentence below: “Center takes a woman at her most vulnerable time and sets her on a journey to find herself without losing what […]