I positively adore Valentine’s Day and I always have, with the exception of a few angst-ridden years there (think high school and college). Anyway, I always loved making Valentine boxes in elementary school, and picking out just the right cards. This year, it seems like it snuck up on me. I didn’t see it coming […]

On the day I turned nineteen, I got on an airplane and flew to Paris and I stayed in France for ten weeks. It was the summer in between my freshman and sophomore years of college. I was in love with my best friend Simon, but he didn’t know it. Or maybe he did. Either […]

I’m a definite fan of our big bonus room (for lack of a better term) upstairs. It feels like a cozy little getaway with the angled ceilings and windowseats that look out onto the front yard. I frequently enjoy sitting in the windowseats with Jude and watching for Simon to come home from work. However, […]

Tonight when Simon was on his way home from work, he called home, as he tends to do, and we discussed the day. “What did you do today?” he asks. “Um, oh, well, you know, grocery shopping, child-raising, oh, and um, painting,”  I respond. “Painting.” This is a statement, not a question. Poor Simon. Somewhere […]