I spent yesterday afternoon helping my client wrangle her collection of loose recipe pages, and it's made me decide to assign the task to all of you because. Among the collection were handwritten notecards a couple of decades old, crumpled newspaper and magazine tears, print outs of recipes exchanged between friends over email, from websites and cooking blogs. Some contained notes in the margin, reminders to adjust the bake time, substitute ingredients, or just "excellent." ...

Subscription boxes are arguably one of the most pervasive trends this side of the millennium. There is literally a subscription box for every interest and audience that exists. In case you've been living in a vortex, subscription boxes are curated gift boxes sent to you regularly for a given amount of time. Some subscription box services allow you to indicate your general preferences or types of items you're interested in sampling. There are boxes for ...

It's happened: the boys are back in town and the kids are back in school. More the second thing than the first, in all fairness. With school comes extra curricular activities and sports games and parent meetings and on and on. And then there's homework and deadlines and forms to be signed, plus the year round grandeur of mail and invitations and meal planning. Families today can be more like very busy ships passing rapidly ...

Children of clients are always fascinated by me, which I'm certain has far less to do with me and much more to do with my being a grown up who is purposefully making a huge mess in their house. "What are you doing??" They want to know. Last week, my client's daughters, 3 and 5, were home during our session. The 3 year old spent the hours tromping around in a tutu, requesting salami, and ...

The change of seasons around here has been noticeable, to say the least. More concerning than the fact that the sun disappeared in favor of overcast grey skies with that special Seattle drizzle is this: After a summer of fans blowing the air around and breezes blowing through open windows, the accelerated Fall weather conditions and the related repercussions (every window closed tight, no sunlight, et al) have this way of making a space suddenly ...