It is weed season. Dandelions make me hunger for a simple dish I first read in Honey From a Weed, a cookbook I’ve continued to enjoy for over thirty years. The elemental Macedonian dish morphs into a splendid risotto.
Read MoreThree Words that Transform Anxiety or Fear into Excitement
After many years of suffering stage-fright in certain situations, I wonder what would have happened had I known neuroscientist Ian Robertson’s “magic trick” that transforms certain forms of anxiety and fear into excitement.
Read MoreEtsy Studio for Hard-to-Find Project and Craft Supplies + Ideas
When we were searching for hardware for a bag we are prototyping, we scoured New York City’s garment district and the internet for sources. We were surprised to find the most complete offerings at Etsy. The digital marketplace of crafters and sellers has expanded…
Read MoreInstructions on Not Giving Up (Ada Limón)
Some time ago, we published a PDF Toolkit of Questions to Ask Before Giving Up. Perhaps as good or better is poet Ada Limón’s wondrous, to-the-point poem “Instructions on Not Giving Up”, which provides powerful instruction of another sort.
Read MoreSara Berman’s Closet: The Tenderness of Creating Your Own Life
A tiny yet extraordinary exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum is evidence that we “are free to change at any age”.
Read MoreMothers Day Special: Moms Rewrite Ivanka’s Clueless Rules
In this video, Mira Keras and four working mothers read from Ivanka Trump’s book Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules of Success, and share their thoughts on Trump’s strategies for succeeding at work without sacrificing family life and well-being. Mira’s strategy trumps Ivanka’s!
Read MoreVery Surprising View from the Bottom of a Water Bucket (Emily Dickinson + Randall Jarrell)
The Bucket is one of the sweetest, charming and curiously refreshing videos we’ve seen in ages, and presents a serious shift of view.
Read MoreDrape Stuff, Like That Scrap of Beautiful Fabric or Vintage Rug
We always scouring cool home ideas the are easy to do. Are we secretly lazy? We sew but try to avoid it or having carpenters come or buying major pieces of furniture. We just want to have a pleasurable, unencumbered time making something fresh out of what we have. Here are two three examples…
Read MoreMorning Poem, Meditation, Mantra: Jamila Woods’ ‘Holy’
We find Jamila Woods Holy a lovely day to orient the day: meditation, mantra, big expression of joy and selfhood.
Read MoreRei Kawakubo’s Creative Manifesto
In this rare manifesto designer Rei Kawakubo of Commes des Garcons reveals some of the paths she follows to find absolutely NEW paths, her rigorous challenge to herself.
Read MoreOur Newest Day Planning Strategy
In addition to our clockface day planner, we’ve been employing another illuminating strategy to fill and track our day.
Read MoreHow to Feel Like You Are Skinny Dipping (Deanna Templeton + Anne Sexton)
The Swimming Pool, photographer Deanna Templeton’s series of people swimming nude has the power to transport, refresh and calm. As does this poem by Anne Sexton.
Read MoreA Relaxing Approach to Desiring Fine Things
Everywhere we look we are urged to desire things, with the implicit message that if we have them, we’ll be okay. We like psychotherapist Chris Eldredge’s unique approach to the acquisition of fine things.
Read MoreThe FlexiSpot Sit Stand Desk Changed My Life
After 2 months of test-driving a Flexispot Sit Stand Desk, I’m smitten, fitter and thinner. Here’s my honest review, with pros, cons and what to look out for.
Read MoreVintage Rug Disguises the TV: Brilliant!
In a house tour of furniture dealer and interior designer Michael Bargo, we thought: “How nice to hang a really beautiful rug on the wall, in a mashup with beautiful objects from many eras”. Then we read the fine print.
Read MoreCherry Tree Whose Branches Reach Out to Protect (with haiku + motown)
Every spring when the cherry trees on our corner of Harlem are in blossom, we marvel, not just at the riot of pink but at one particular tree and the life that goes on under it.
Read MoreA Baby Elephant Shows What To Do When You’re Stuck
We watched this amazing video and thought, yeah, we’ve been there…
Read MoreThe Line of Least Resistance (Trisha Brown)
We when first watched this beautiful two minute video, we knew nothing about it, who made it or who its subject was. We thought only: THAT is how we want to be…
Read MoreThe Challenge and Wonder of Boxhood (Emil Ferris)
Emil Ferris, creator of the breakout graphic novel, My Favorite Thing is Monsters, writes eloquently about the misunderstood notion of thinking outside the box. She knows what she’s talking about; she’s navigated extraordinary challenges with aplomb.
Read MoreWe’re Not Advertising Anything, Damn It!
We found this cartoon while we were leafing through The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker, perfect, relaxing bedtime reading. Drawn in 1966 by Charles E. Martin, it’s even more timely today.
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