Do you remember my entrance staircase, the one that always felt a little too bare no matter how tidy the entryway was, because bare stairs have a way of making a house feel slightly louder and less welcoming the second you walk in? Last Saturday I finally finished it with a new stair runner, and […]
I realized I’ve talked about paint colors, pantry shelves, and all the small projects that keep a house moving forward, but I’ve never properly introduced one of the most alive objects in my living room, which is our antique clock, the one that keeps ticking even when the house is quiet and it’s only me […]
One week ago, I was doing the least dramatic thing imaginable, which was loading clothes into the washing machine, and the ceiling light just turned off. No flicker, no warning, no slow dimming like a polite goodbye. It was on, then it wasn’t, and I stood there in the half-dark with a damp towel in […]
My backyard garage was built a little over fourteen years ago, back when everything still felt new enough that you assumed it would stay easy forever, and lately I’ve been noticing how the place has started to show its age in the most practical ways. The garage still does its job, we still park the […]
For a long time, I thought baskets belonged in the utility parts of the house, the laundry room where you toss towels, the bedroom where you hide extra blankets, the corner where you collect things you don’t have time to deal with yet. I associated baskets with catching clutter, not creating order, and definitely not […]
Yesterday, I watered my little backyard garden the same way I always do, which is by dragging out the long hose, stepping over it, unkinking it, walking it back, then realizing I have somehow wrapped it around a chair leg even though I swear I was being careful. It worked, technically, but it never felt […]
This morning I walked into my second bathroom and got that familiar feeling that something is incomplete, even though the room is clean and technically done. It was not the mirror, not the towels, not the paint, it was the sink. The sink itself is perfectly fine, simple and white, the kind you stop noticing […]
Boston gave me one of those rare, gentle days today, the kind that makes you forget you’ve been moving through life on autopilot until the light hits your bedroom floor just right and you suddenly feel awake again. I had plans recently, I’ve been seeing friends, I’ve been doing all the normal things that should […]
