the green chest

Category: Reflection

  • On Mothering, Before Our First Mother’s Day

    On Mothering, Before Our First Mother’s Day

    May 9, 2017 Dearest Isadora, Today you fell off the bed. For the record, it was your father watching you, but also for the record, it could have just as easily been me. See, you learned to tumble what seems like overnight. Just a few days ago, you rolled slightly to the left, and several…

  • Your Guide to Good Gift Giving

    Your Guide to Good Gift Giving

    Source: Your Guide to Good Gift Giving Today is an exciting Friday! SolDesign launched a new, gorgeous website and I wrote a post for it! (Well, I wrote a couple of posts, but this one is my favorite.) The idea for a guide to “good” gift giving has been brewing for a few years. Celebrations and holidays have…

  • Watching Change Happen

    Originally posted on Jetlag Talks: One of my first days back in Cambodia after Thailand, I woke up to see the sunrise at Angkor Wat, arguably the world’s largest religious monument, and, understandably, a huge source of pride for Cambodians. Angkor Wat was a whole “city” of temples, built around 1100 A.D. While eating breakfast next to…