Category archives: recommendations

The “bottom of winter” + Richard Feynman, Maira Kalman, and Michael Bierut

It seems like everyone I know has had at least one day this week that just stunk. It’s early February, it’s grey, it’s cold and, as one of our good friends in Iowa likes to say, it’s the “bottom of winter”.
We’re doing our best to fight off the February malaise with bright colors, a little [...]

Handmade recommendations!

Well, our best laid plans to check out the Bust Craftacular on Sunday were foiled, but I still have a great batch of handmade recommendations to share with you. (Waiting in line with a two month old in 34 degree weather just wasn’t going to happen!)
These are a few of my favorites – there are [...]

Children’s book recommendations

In the spirit of my post on Tuesday, I wanted to follow up my book recommendations for adults with a great assortment of children’s books. I’ll warn you, this one gets a little long – there are a lot of of favorites to share!
There are so many books that I loved when I was little, [...]

The days are just packed

It’s obvious, it’s cliché, but its so true: how did it get to be December 1st?!? Between work and life (which my mom will remind me are often the same thing), here we are…30 days away from 2010. Yowza.
I want to do something totally different from my usual posts this time around. I want to [...]