What happens when you quit eating sugar for 30 days
This is not the scientific study you’re expecting. But it is what to expect when you quit eating sugar. Stage 1: Loopholes When you stop eating sugar you start looking for ways to eat sugar. You start...
View ArticleThe Dance of Floundering: Nurturing Creativity or Wasting Time
Simon writes me a letter. It is in response to the letter I sent him in the mail from my manual typewriter. He writes back on paper, scanning it in and emailing it to me. It’s his little revolt...
View ArticleThe art of moving from floundering to finishing
The poppies revealed themselves in April. Self-seeded. Volunteers. I thought… well, HELLO and THANKS. A few years ago I was at the library book sale, which is so good it is dangerous. Outside was a...
View ArticleThe 100 Day Project: Paris Storefronts (plus a colouring page)
Eleven glorious days into my self-inflicted 100 Day Project and I already went from wanting to crawl under the couch and hide to full on INSPIRED. (Scroll to the bottom for a colouring page.) This...
View ArticleAugust and the latest painted storefronts
The novelty of summer has worn off. We are all back from vacation, have stopped analyzing our tan lines, stopped making big plans and haven’t seemed to make it much further than our front porch. We’re...
View ArticleSeptember Storefronts: Angelina and The Failure Garden
September changes things. We don’t think we are susceptible to the change, that we won’t fall for it this time, but resistance is futile. Suddenly it’s cinnamon. Didn’t think twice about this cozy...
View ArticleSlow fade into fall
Another blog post. Another blogger waxing poetic about autumn. That’s how I wanted to start. Go on about cool mornings and chunky sweaters. That’s how all of us...
View ArticleThe 20th anniversary of Eat, Pray, Love and me
This is the bookmark I’m using for a reread of Eat, Pray, Love. Autumnal and dreamy. It has been 20 years since Eat, Pray, Love came out. Twenty years since I walked into a bookstore in Santa Monica,...
View Article2024 Paris Planner is HERE
I think the best part of my job is when the new books are delivered. I get to see them in all their full glory. Behold the 2024 Paris Planner, now available on Amazon. Today is the perfect day to buy...
View ArticleBlack Friday? How about Bleak Tuesday and an incongruent gift guide.
There is an incongruence here. Prepare yourself. On the one hand, yes I would LOVE for you to grab the 2024 Paris Planner for you and all the people on your list while you’re over at Amazon taking...
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