My background: I was born in the city, spent my childhood in the suburbs, stayed in the suburbs for awhile after college, moved to the city for a few years (and loved it…I still consider it one of the best times of my life) and then came back to the suburbs in 2008. Not the […]
I’ve been sitting on this photo book for quite some time…since 2013. Oops. I started sifting through the photos awhile back, but I think because I let too much time pass between the trip and putting together this book, I started to lose interest in the project. But I’m determined to get back at it again. […]
Don’t mind me – I’m just taking the time to appreciate summer while we have it. (It’s blowing my mind that next week is July. Wha???? How did this happen?) So far June has been filled with work, eating dried mangoes that my babysitter brought back from the Philippines (she got them back for my son, […]
Sometime on Monday, I noticed that the mallard who laid 10 eggs under my front window was sitting on a bunch of newly-hatched ducklings. Cool, I thought. I wonder what time this happened. The mallard didn’t seem to pleased with my gawking, so I left and periodically came throughout the morning and afternoon to see if […]
hope everyone has a great holiday weekend and is doing something cool. My family and I are sticking around town and looking for a nearby carnival (this is a picture from one last year), so obviously I hope there’s a corn dog in my future. We’re also hosting my neighbors for a little barbecue. When […]
Yesterday, I became a mom to a one-year-old. (OMG.) We didn’t have a big party (this article that pretty much summarizes our feelings on why we shied away from it). But fear not, we ordered food from our favorite Persian restaurant and followed that up with a Lutz cake (something my parents used to get […]