only what you love, only what you need…
When I was small I used to lie across the makeshift mattress that was my mother’s lap. She would thread my hair with her fingers and if I pressed my eyes shut I could hear her singing. Other times I...
View Articlewelcome to your life, day one
I wanted to be a writer, that’s all. I wanted to write about it all. Everything that happens in a moment. The way the flowers looked when you carried them in your arms. This towel, how it smells, how...
View Articlea week lived in technicolor
1. cobalt blue dress @ anthropologie, fitting for my European holiday | 2. tulips @ union square market | 3. gramercy tavern from the outside | 4. cobalt walls from domino’s small spaces issue | 5....
View Articlewhen the heart suddenly stops
Would your fear be any less and would you see that you had been chosen to help the sun rise? ― Nick Bantock, Alexandria: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Unfolds It...
View Articlefort tryon park + the cloisters
A month ago, a reader (Barbara R.) wondered why we never treat our hometowns as if we were visiting them for the first time. How we don’t do the sorts of things we do on holiday, but at home. This...
View Articlea woman swoons over a green juice
While you’ll never, ever find me partaking in a juice cleanse, I love a green juice that can serve as my veggie on the go, or an almond smoothie, which is the perfect post-workout salve. My favorite...
View Articlean awakening at moma: there is a method
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the...
View Articlequick eats: sticky’s finger joint, new york
Normally I shy away from telling people that I’m a foodie, as the word carries a weight that my shoulders are unable to bear. The word conjures an idea that I’m trying every newfangled eatery, and my...
View Articlepumpkin white bean hummus with quinoa + pomegranate
When the start to your week is lackluster. You drop your phone, something about it ceases to function, people push and shove on the subway and read their iPad, blowing stale breath inches away from...
View Articlewho do you inspire + how do you handle it? seriously, i’d like to know
Yesterday, I received a lovely card that put me on pause. An old friend and fellow Columbia alumn apologized for our constant misconnections, relaying that, though often from afar, I have always...
View Articlebrunch at sarabeth’s + cultivating a kula
Today I had one of those days where nothing happened, yet everything happened. Forever petrified of “new” people, I spent the morning with a friend and her best friend, working out and eating all...
View Articlehome, sweet home
Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign,...
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