I complain about friendships sometimes. A lot of the time actually. Mostly to Gerrit. I complain about the fact that we have very few friends that live in town. I complain about friendships that sometimes feel fake and how I miss my friends that live far away. I complain about feeling like I’m not…
{More: January 2013 : February 2013 : March 2013 : April 2013 : May & June 2013 : July 2013} Favorite dish/meal: We got to have people around our table a lot this month. My parents’ are (still) in the midst of redoing their kitchen, so while they were without appliances we had them over for dinner several times. And last week I got to cook…
{Bittersweet by Shauna Niequist} This is a book of essays about a particularly difficult time in Shauna Niequist’s life, when she was dealing with a miscarriage and wanting to move and wanting to have another child. There is lots of bitterness in the book, but she also has a way of finding the holy moments…
Let me set the stage for this meal for you. Early evening in Florence, walking around the Oltrarno. It had been such a hot day. So hot. And we had climbed and climbed up to the Piazza Michelanglo to get a view of Florence, of the Duomo dwarfing every other building in sight, of the…
I have always been a collector. My mom might say I have always been more a hoarder. Not that I am a hoarder, just that if I’m not careful I can have those tendencies. When my brother and I were younger and were instructed to clean our rooms I would carefully organize all of my…