Burnt milk | a video collaboration with Tara Sgroi from Aran Goyoaga on Vimeo. Last week, I spent the day with my friend Tara Sgroi. We started talking about how powerful the sense of smell is in the memory side of the brain. How it can instantly bring us back to a moment in time. She ...
I am hibernating. A tarot card reader recently told me that hibernating is exactly what I need to be doing. Looking inward and not making too many plans until the spring. I have been doing exactly that. Working but also trying to quiet down my mind. The environment certainly helps - the rain, the fog, the ...
Summer has arrived in Seattle. You can feel the excitement as weather becomes the topic of conversation and everyone speaks of outdoor meals and sunsets. My friend, and eternally-inspiring, Jenn Elliott-Blake and I created a Spanish dinner that you can enjoy at any time of the year but suits summer entertaining perfectly. West Elm supplied the ...
Winter hit us with full force in the new year. Not the blizzard, blankets-of-snow kind of winter, but in a very Pacific Northwest way. Drizzle, fog and grey skies. There is ths ghostly beauty to them. Very moody - inducing lots of soup-making and coffee drinking. Hygge, as they say in Denmark. I wanted to also let you ...
When we made the decision to leave Florida, all I craved were seasons. I knew from that moment on I could only live in a place where leaves turn ochre and the rain turns everything blue. I suppose in some ways I just searched for my childhood environment - a place I felt comfortable. Seattle is ...