is it well with thee? is it well with the child? and she answered, it is well. Today was spent in part wandering this very old (for America, of course) graveyard, with graves going back to the 1700s. I was thrifting in a town near where the wedding I’m helping with is happening, so I [...]

1st day of thrifting in Vermont – a good many treasures! I also found 2 big bags of clothes – paper bag waist shorts, a bow tie, sailor jeans and a striped shirt for me, & many more lovely dresses and skirts to head onward to Etsy, as soon as my sister in law succumbs [...]

Quick trip to Davis this weekend, and the first in a series I’ve been meaning to do forever highlighting my amazing lady friends. The luminous and highly talented Miss Kai Smart agreed to touch up / completely renovate some very poor tattoos I had done in 2006. Note to self: never get just brown ink [...]

Maybe you know this about me, and maybe you don’t, but I almost never buy anything new from a shop. Handmade, yes, and vintage/thrifted, of course, but my personal contribution to saving the world lies in my purchase choices.  Recently my thrifting mojo was tested, I’ve been looking for sandals forever – now, normally when [...]

Leroi Jones and Diane Di Prima at the Cedar Tavern, April 5, 1960 I’ve been obsessed, OBSESSED with Diane DiPrima since I was 14 and came across her poems in an anthology, devouring everything I could find after that. Memorizing chunks of Loba, her epic poem that continues to be written. Living vicariously through her Recollections [...]

weeks of adventures. wine parties & curled in chairs talking late. fog hung picnics on lake edges, sprawled on colorful blankets with mouths full of chocolate & pies. long walks on forest paths, bowls of mexican hot chocolate with fingers curled tight begging for warmth, art shows & tapas in new dark magic places, shimmering [...]

I’m sorting through some things life has dumped into my lap, or rather I have dumped into my own lap through a variety of past and present learned behaviours, so i’m sorting through that and not thinking about updates, though I have ideas milling about. For now, enjoy some style from the woman I think [...]

I’m having a rainy Sunday “80′s movies destroyed my idea of living well” day – Netflix has No Small Affair (aw, adorable Jon Cryer) on watch instantly, and Demi Moore’s North Beach loft is KILLING ME. I mean, for real. How was I to know that by the time I grew up, this kind of [...]