The time has come … (I keep hearing, in my head, “the walrus said, to talk of many things…”) But the time has come. It’s here. Life After Yes debuts today and I whole-heartedly encourage you to order it. It’s been such a pleasure and an honor to live this process a little bit, vicariously, [...]
It’s my distinct honor today to post an anonymous post here on A Design So Vast. This was written by a friend and I am deeply touched that she trusted me with her story and asked me to share it with all of you. This is part of Five for Ten in that it is [...]
Memory. Where to start? I’ve written so much about it. About the mysterious alchemy whereby small moments, inconsequential as we lived them, become significant, weighty memories, full of recollected details. About the way that certain songs can transport me back, instantly and vividly, to the past. About the occasional awareness of the memory of a [...]
I read Glenda Burgess’s exquisite memoir, The Geography of Love a couple of weeks ago, reading it voraciously in two sittings, unable to put the beautiful volume down. Glenda makes me believe in soul mates. Given my own fixation with maps and geography, with all the tools that we use, concrete and ineffable, to guide [...]
Happiness is so large and unwieldy a topic that I confess I felt daunted. So I decided to approach it from the other end, focusing on the tiny details instead of the big picture. Here are some things that never fail to make me happy: (see left for illustration of me, happy) Starbucks venti nonfat [...]
I read Jonathan Fields’ post about trusting the pendulum over the weekend with interest. I feel this swing inside myself, from extroversion to introversion, on a regular basis. I’m not sure it’s quite the same as the person he describes, but I have long felt tension between how I am perceived on this particular topic [...]
Courage. I’ve been thinking about this word, this concept, this idea, all weekend. Trying to figure out what to share for this inaugural Five for Ten post. Certainly I don’t feel I have much, so that was easy to dismiss. I kept coming back, over and over again, to Susie. Susie was like a mother [...]
Despite my general disinterest in mother’s day, even my dug-in heels are slipping against the tide of forwarded emails, blog posts, and essays I’m reading this weekend. Let me be clear: I have no problem with beautiful, heartfelt words about motherhood – in fact I adore them. I just find the packing of them into [...]
I’m not a big celebrator of Mother’s Day; like most other holidays (with the notable exceptions of Christmas and my birthday) I tend to be relatively disinterested and even skeptical. That said, I love this video that Kelly sent. Love it. I think it applies every day, not just this Sunday. Thank you … for [...]
So, I read a lot of blogs. We’ve established that. Still, I have my very favorites, those that I treasure and hold dear, whose words routinely speak straight to my heart. Heather’s blog, The Extraordinary Ordinary, is one of those very favorites. It has been such a joy to get to know her in the [...]
