the bits of summer garden we have growing: tiny cukes and tiny tomatoes and big, fat abundant figs! my helpful handsome humanitarian warrior husband made a delicious dinner under 100 degree temps – almost nice on our morning walks – and a bit of rain bob is naughty but i’m grateful for his training and…
or, why we love idaho springs, colorado by my incredibly talented sister in law Stephanie
If I could outline the last two weeks of my life, it’d basically be a sandwich of INCREDIBLY INTENSE WORK DAYS and SUPER FUN WEEKENDS before an incredibly intense workday crashed into a super fun weekend and I was on a conference call at 9am on a Saturday getting made fun of for a voice…
My handsome helpful humanitarian warrior had surgery earlier this week, and he is a bad patient. He is bad at resting, bad at chilling, very bad at doing nothing. Very bad, 0/10, does not respect couch arrest. And he’s still in a lot of pain, and I think it’s because his lack of rest is…
Occasionally I publish Research Lists wherein I am looking for some fashion item for myself and either need your help or to share my work with the class. Today, we are doing something different. Today, you must go purchase these shorts: AE Dreamy Drape Stretch Short My husband wears what I would consider “real” shorts…
The whole fam is headed up to Colorado for my mom’s belated 70th birthday celebration, and our flights are delayed—on two different airlines! Summer in the mountains. But! I’m grateful we’re going, and this is just an inevitable part of travel. In a short week with a weird Wednesday holiday from work, nothing has gone…
WEDNESDAY CONCERT! It was admittedly a bold move to go to a concert on a Wednesday 1.5 hours away in Fredericksburg, but it was SO worth it!! I have seen some amazing music in the last couple of years, but this setting was sublime: camping chairs, under oak trees, against a vineyard, sipping rosé (not…
Can I be grateful for a cough? A person certainly could, but can I? Me, Lyssa? Maybe. I had this terrible cough for a full 10 days. I hit the infrared sauna, got cupped, spent time outside in the sun for my vitamin D, mucinex-ed, even started a course of ivermectin (the “FLiRT” variant of…
Happiest 40th birthday to my childhood best friend! I so loved celebrating you this weekend, and I can’t wait to see what your best decade yet looks like! So very grateful these past couple of weeks. A simple list:
This question represents the absolute saddest state of our society: Choosing the Man or Bear? On a lighter note, let’s: Pack Our Bags Buy Alllll The Things STORY TIME: I have a pair of Target sandals that I have worn TO DEATH. The (probably fake) leather is peeling, but I can’t stop wearing them because…