Month: December 2015

  • My favorite books of 2015

    The past few months have been a blur — mostly due to the new house — so going over everything I’ve read this year proved to be a nice surprise. I had forgotten how many great books there were! In order of when I read them: Notes: A particularly lovely treat is that several of of my favorite reads this year…

  • The gift of being loved

    For my 30th birthday, Andy gave me an incredible gift. Every day for an entire year, he wrote me a postcard. That’s 365 postcards. 365 days of commitment. 365 love letters, random thoughts, amusing poems, fond memories, doodles, notes of encouragement, and more. I cried when I realized the scope of what he had given me.…

  • Thirty

    For over two weeks I’ve been trying to write a brilliant post full of wisdom to mark the milestone of my 30th birthday. But one of the things I’ve learned over the past 30 years is that sometimes less is more. Also: Marking occasions on the internet is not as important as living them If…