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I guess I’m still working on the bathroom?

DECORATING? NOT REALLY. | The Spring 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC), Black Lives Matter, Instagram, scattered thoughts from a mixed-race non-designer, whathaveyou. Here we are on week six of the ...

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S2020 ORC – The Pink Bathroom goes green, Week 4

DECORATING | The Spring 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC). Talking paint. Paint and pink tile. Paint and panic. Green walls. Magic moments. Can we talk about paint for a minute? Can we talk about how ...

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S2020 ORC – The Pink Bathroom (but not really), Week 3

RANTING | In which I talk about the Spring 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC), decorating my pink bathroom, and my tendency to make people hate me. Oh hi. It’s week three of the ORC and I am ...

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s2020 ORC – The Pink Bathroom, Week 2

DECORATING | The Spring 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC) and me. And my pink bathroom. And the boring cleaning and prep and minor renovations I’ve done so far. OH HAI! It’s the second ...

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This woman’s work

ESSAY | We need to talk about work. I need to talk about work. Women’s work. This woman’s work. I just read a beautiful essay in the Paris Review. It’s entitled, Fuck the Bread. The ...

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s2020 ORC – The Pink Bathroom, Week 1

DECORATING | The Spring 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC) and my MCM pink tile bathroom. Whelp! I did it! I signed up for the One Room Challenge (ORC). I’ve followed it for years, since it ...

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Welcome to the cult of bedtime

PARENTING | So I initially wrote this on my phone. With my thumbs. From 9:30-10:30 PM at night, in that first window of free time I have after my child, The Smeetch, has (dog willing) finally ...

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This is where we live, review

BOOKS | It’s not that I hated this book. It wasn’t badly written. It was compelling enough. (I actually raced through it less than a week, despite the demands of a life that amounts ...

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How to decorate (for Dead Housekeeping)

FLASH MEMOIR | How to decorate. She never shies from an overblown chintz, an acid green, lattice over leaves on the lanai. Too much, she says, is often just right. “Take a page ...

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Clair Huxtable is the best

RETRO TV | Clair Huxtable is the best. She’s the TV mom who taught me the most. Our faves are problematic. I know that, but it’s been a hard pill to swallow. Re-examining my love for ...

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Rewatching My So-Called Life (was actually really hard)

MY SO-CALLED MEMORIES | In rewatches begin responsibilities? Maybe. Regardless, rewatching My So-Called Life gutted me. There was just something about My So-Called Life (MSCL). After its premiere ...

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August and Everything After (a Counting Crows relisten)

MUSIC & MEMORY | Revisiting “August and Everything After”. I first heard Counting Crows on the radio in the spring of 1994. I was wearing one of my Dad’s oversized burgundy dress ...