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From a very special book from a very special lover of literature;

A very special person. La prochaine fois que nous allons lire ensemble avec du chocolat chaud dans les jardins du Luxembourg

Oh Captain, My Captain

Originally published on August 12, 2014 *** I still remember the day in the fall of 2011. "YOU haven't seen Dead Poet's Society? YOU? It's like made for you!" My friend said to me as we watched our girls toddle around my living room. "It's all about poetry and literature and living deliberately. You must see it." You see, I ...

A Moveable Feast

Back in the Winter of 2014 I shared a very intimate story about an incredibly unique and treasured friendship. It was a friendship built on a foundation of unspoken understanding, hand-holding and a lot of Hemingway. I met my friend, B, during our Junior year of college (and if you have yet to read about it, my ...

April #birchbox

I am very excited to be a #Birchblogger, which means that I had the chance to unbox the April #birchbox for my ever so popular Youtube Channel (In actuality I have 0 subscribers and less than 200 views). I love my subscription to birchbox, a gift that was given to me by my husband as a surprise ...

Happy Anniversary, sweet city.

This post is so hard to write. I know that I have some experience in writing hard posts, but this is a different kind of hard. Because although I have endured pain in the past year, there is unique, exquisite ache that comes with nostalgia, which is really the heart of this post. Nostalgia is defined as ...

The story of two girls, the story of two women, and everything in between.

Where to begin? I sit here, hands tracing the keys of my laptop, but I don't know how to start our story; to really tell our story in a way that will do it justice. It probably won't make sense to anyone else. But it does to us, so I guess that is all that ...

On writing.

This morning, as I straightened up my kitchen, I found an old picture that I had developed; It was a photo of Ernest Hemingway, aged and bearded, writing with a pen on a legal pad. *** Recently, I found a journal that I had kept as a child. In it I had proclaimed that I wanted to ...

sister from another mister

My daughter has taken to grasping onto things. Today, during yoga, it was my ponytail. Which made for quite the interesting Cat/Cow situation. She’s very tactile, And loves to feel things, to grab things, to hold things and to touch things at all times. But, nothing compares to her most favorite object to grab, My beloved Twinkle necklace. Interestingly enough, little does ...