This is going to be pretty brief because…well, it’s a long weekend and I want to enjoy it! My in-laws have the baby for the night and I’m going out for some drinks! Rock ‘n roll! It’s been a good Thanksgiving and I’m so grateful for so much — family, friends, livelihood, creativity, solidarity, and […]
Fashion Experiment: Trying Out Semi-Weird Fashion Styling Tricks
I remember a boyfriend of mine from ages ago — the early 90s, I believe, when stiff dark blue A.P.C. jeans were super-cool and everyone read Bust and wanted to hang in the East Village before it became a haven for investment bankers trying to buy some cool-by-proximity. He once asked me why all the […]
Friday Five: Looking for Love and Hope In “Arrival,” Eleanor Friedberger and Andrea Marr
I don’t know if it’s a post-election hangover, the shorter darker days, the creep of holiday obligations or just hormones/brain chemistry/etc. But I’ve been feeling much more down and brain-foggy and sodden with sorrow this past week. I try not to burden this space with too much struggle — but instead create something bright with […]
The Maternity Wardrobe: Curating From Your Closet, Working With What You Have And When To “Go Maternity”
So…you’re pregnant, and facing a nine-month span of OMG INCUBATING A SMALL HUMAN INSIDE YOURSELF. You might be relieved, freaked out, really and extremely freaked out, happy, worried, surprised, awful, scared. Whatever you feel = totally valid. Pregnancy is one of those conditions in life that runs the gamut in terms of emotions. And I’m […]
What I Will Teach My Toddler Son Over The Next Four Years
I woke up the morning of November 9, 2016, feeling a pang of sadness. A hangover of the despair I felt the night before, I suppose, when I stayed up past my bedtime to wait for election results. And then my thought immediately turned to my little boy. I realized Budgie is going to grow […]
Friday Five: Finding Consolation In The Crown, Cat Meditation Videos and Super Adorable Christmas Ads
I don’t think I’ve fully recovered from the seismically shocking political events this week, but these are the things that are bringing me some bits of brightness and cheer. The Crown. I am a begrudging, grumpy yet utterly fascinated British royalty watcher. (Well, British anything, really…total Anglophile here!) But I don’t think you need any […]
Items To Stave Off Fashion Boredom
Do you ever have moments when you just want to rebel against your carefully cultivated and curated self? When you look in your wardrobe at all your well-chosen basics and your wonderfully tasteful classics and staples and you’re like “ARGH I NEED SOME HOT PINK AND LEOPARD PRINT, STAT!” (Okay, maybe it is just me.) […]
Friday Five: The “Things That Are Winning” Edition, Like Voting, Frank Ocean And The Cubs
This week was chock-full of a lot of schedule anomalies: Halloween, my sister’s birthday, making the time to go vote early. My little routine was thrown off, but I tried to embrace it, using it to switch things up and keep it all a bit fresh. Sometimes things fell by the wayside — like my […]
The Different Flavors of Mama Burnout And How To Handle Them
See that picture above? That was me on one of my lowest, saddest days as a new mom. No sleep for days, both of us ill, crying baby, crying mom…I felt intensely lonely and overwhelmed, convinced that my spirit and life were ruined and I would never recover. Both of us had had a rough […]