a peek inside the fishbowl

When I was 18 I visited family in the Czech Republic for the first time. It wasn’t long after the Berlin wall had come down. I never expected to be able to go there, back to the motherland, but I did. I stayed with my grandmother, my mother’s mother, who lived in Prague. I remember […]

I was having a little chuckle over the story of Forever 21’s new USPS fashion collection just now and I remembered that my post about my One Dress, Thirty Days challenge is still sitting in my drafts folder. I am still gathering my thoughts, but to be honest, I’m not sure if it’s coming out […]

So this arrived today… … our member cards to the National Gallery of Canada! We had a membership many moons ago and decided to renew it this year during a recent visit to see Anthropocene. (Which was amazing, by the way.) The family membership is $105, and will definitely pay for itself within the next […]

It seems unfair to single out one Christmas gift of many lovely gifts, but I wanted to share this because I am really enjoying this David’s tea sampler right now and I think many of you would too. I should qualify this all by saying that I like tea well enough but I’m definitely not a […]

I have a new post up at the terra20 website and I wanted to share it here too because I LOVE MY NEW SLIPPERS SO MUCH. (Thanks mom.) Mark has hinted that they give my feet a slight Hobbit-like appearance, but I don’t care what he thinks because nothing beats warm feet. Share the post […]