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So, my fiancé teaches climbing. Last fall, he schooled me in the ways of the wall.  Let’s get one thing straight: I am a selectively adventurous woman. I’ll go trekking in the Himalayas, but I won’t strap on a pair of downhill skis to save my life. I’ll start my own business in the midst […]

Confession: I love assigning myself homework (just call me Super Nerd). This morning, I built a small pile of items: a scruffy yet cute pair of summer sandals, two pairs of pearl earrings, a bottle of blush pink perfume, a set of red cufflinks, a vintage map, and a terrifically old-school radio. I then embarked […]

This is a place with a sea salt breeze, rubber kelp strands, and terra cotta sand where the tide runs in rivulets. A place where robin’s egg paint peels away from dinghies docked on the promenade, and where an old lady in a pink sequin beret strolls with her husband in the hazy spring sun. […]

There comes a time in every young woman’s life when the ol’ blog well dries up, and blog posts veer into bottom-of-the-barrel territory. This is not one of those moments. Because today, I am fully disclosing crumpets in all their British gastronomic glory! Certainly this warrants a resounding “Huzzah!” from the peanut gallery – that’s […]

Here I am, typing to you from a cozy pub apartment in the rollicking Welsh countryside. It’s like coming home in some ways, but in other ways I will always be just a little bit dopey and out of my element in the UK. The laundry detergent bottles feel fun sized in my jumbo-accustomed American […]

I’ve been a naughty blogger lately. As in, post-less. So here’s a peace offering of fruit, yogurt and granola. Everything copacetic now? Thought so. Somehow, since I was last here, the seasons changed. I now have the itch to buy woolly hats and scarves. I nearly ate an apple spice candle for dinner last night, […]