How Furniture Shapes Us

What is your favorite seat in the house? Mine is a cozy wingback that I found on Craigslist last year. It is perfect for reading, napping, and tea-drinking. I am fascinated by the idea that while we shape our individual homes, the furniture of the times shape us in...

Read or Unread… Which is Better?

I have one main bookcase in my apartment. (And of course, plans for many more) As I was looking at it the other day, I wondered how much of its contents I’d read. There are widely varying beliefs held about the right way to curate a library, from the ubiquitous...

Inspiration from a Certain Place

Over the past summer, I’ve attended a number of author readings, and learned that the question almost every author gets asked is: Where do you get your ideas? If you’ve been following my adventures since Taste Life Twice, no doubt you’ve learned that...