Category: Life as Art
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Five Years
When you’re 24 and you tell people you’re approaching your second wedding anniversary, they often look at you askance. At least they do in more cosmopolitan areas of the world. This is less likely to happen in the rural spot I’m from. It’s obvious to me what the sophisticated side-eyers are thinking. Too young too young…
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Funk Busters — What to do When Nothing’s Right
I had planned to sit down and write any number of aiming-to-be-brilliant-and-engaging things, but today’s got me in a funk. I don’t feel like writing. I don’t feel like working. I don’t feel like anything. So here’s a list of things I have done or should do to snap out of it. They’re mostly the…
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Decision-Making 101: That time we almost moved to Iceland
Ever since 2012, when Chad and I decided to go to Iceland (kind of on a whim, but also because of Sigur Ros music videos) because it was cheaper than going to Spain, we’ve been more than a little preoccupied with the thought of going back and staying there. For awhile. Like a year. I…
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We Do Not Have as Much Time in the Day as Beyonce
As one might expect of a fashion company, other people in my office have expertly decorated desk spaces. I love looking at everyone’s little tchotchkes on my way to fill up my water bottle, all the while trying not to look like a creeper while getting distracted and walking past my own desk because I’m…
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Vintage Beauty Project
When I was little, I loved looking through my parents’ wedding album. It wasn’t so much that I was into weddings as a little girl, but more that I was interested in what my parents’ lives were like before I knew them. Before they knew me. I’ve been obsessed with hearing stories about what their…
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Reframing Winter
I know it’s not officially not winter anymore. But it feels like it. This winter has been a long one. Even though it’s officially spring, and we’ve had a smattering of spectacular spring days already, they’re calling for a bit more snow this week. In a serious effort to make it through the last dregs…