I was ten when I got my first period. NONE of my friends had gotten it yet. Like, not one. Actually…I don’t even think my FOUR YEARS OLDER sister had gotten it yet. Read more →
Month: July 2013
Al’s #1 Italian Beef: Chicago, 3am
Amy and Katherine looking surprisingly natural after I yelled “DON’T LOOK AT ME! LOOK NATURAL!” I just got back from four days in Chicago at the 9th annual BlogHer Conference. If you’ve ever been on this sort of business trip, you probably know what I’m talking about when I say the days have blurred completely together (although that may have something to do… Read more →
This Wedding Save The Date Is The Inspiration For My Next Tattoo
{via Spencer Studio} Not the Sylvia & Arthur part. I mean, I’m sure they’re a lovely couple and all, but it’s the geometric water color that I’m keying in on. You know — not that one exactly, but the style of it catches my eye. {via Amanda Wachob Instagram/Web} There’s this tattoo artist named Amanda Wachob and ever since I… Read more →
Clothes I’m Not Buying But Want To
I’ve gained weight. Which totally sucks. I hate gaining weight. But I’ve got a useless lump of coal where my thyroid should be and I’m a workaholic with poor self-care so inevitably every few years I plump up and have 30 lbs to battle back. Unless it’s a year I get pregnant in which case I have 100 lbs to… Read more →
Designer Bookmark
Sometimes I’m just impressed by people’s cleverness. By ARTORI design. Read more →
Naked Athletes!!!
Beach Volleyball phenom Kerri Walsh Jennings was one of eight athletes to grace the cover of ESPN The Magazine’s annual Body Issue this week — having been photographed both while pregnant, and months later with her newborn daughter Scout. I am a huge fan of the Body Issue every year, because naked athletes are a sight worth seeing. Not just… Read more →
Demented and Sad, But Social
{via} It was probably 1989when my parents left my sister to babysit me for the first time and she showed me my first John Hughes movie. {via} If I was eight, she was twelve, but her taste in movies was stellar nonetheless. I remember her brandishing the VHS tape and informing me it was the best movie I’d ever see.… Read more →
Here’s The Secret: We’re All The Worst Mother Ever
Nearly a year ago one of my beloved college roommates had her first baby. We live across the country from each other now so I wasn’t there to bring over dinner and hold the baby so she could take a nap after a week straight of sleepless nights. But we could text message. At any and all hours we could text… Read more →
“Rainbow Star and The Mustache Man”
I remember the first story I ever wrote down. It was about a kid-spy named Peanut who had bullet proof skin and lived in the future. I was eight. I wrote it in a notebook and made a cover for it out of the sheets of cardboard that the cleaners sent back in my Dad’s folded dress shirts. (Come to… Read more →
Car Talk With My Husband
Recently, Scott’s been having some trouble with his Jeep. (It’s worth noting here that when a car guy says they’re having car trouble, it can be hard to discern if it’s a bad transmission or if he just means he need some “me time”.) At any rate, it appears that this time the car trouble is legit because yesterday he… Read more →