Germination(Post)

    One of the things we've been most excited to work on, since moving, is establishing a garden. My husband is gung-ho about growing our food, and there is, in my opinion, no earthly experience quite lik

    Poetry by Post, 4.0(Post)

    Before I opened my shop, I wanted to be an English professor. Not just wanted, but did all the things. Took the classes. Wrote a dissertation. Defended it. Applied for a small handful of jobs. So suff

    Immaterial Goals in a Material World(Post)

    Last week, I wrote some entirely transparent sentiments about running a retail shop in a society that is debt-ridden and full of disposable goods. It's a tough thing to admit because I don't for one s

    The World Inside of Your Living Room(Post)

    There was a time in my past when life was lived at such opposite extremes I could hardly make sense of the experience. It happened in the months after we brought our identical twin girls home. We were

    Vintage Stamps, Reimagined(Post)

    Something rather upsetting has happened to me over the past year. I've had the opportunity to go to two stamp shows, which is honestly one of my most favorite ways to spend a Sunday, and I had to refr

    Postscript x Minted(Post)

    Here’s something I’m giddy about: we are partnering with Minted this year to provide you with a way to combine: 1) the benefits of a brick and mortar staffed with human beings you can talk to, with 2)

    Lessons from Steve(Post)

    The hardest thing about getting lost in a book is having to find your way back out of it when you finish the last page and close the cover. One of my hardest reentry periods was the time I finished Ed

    Showing Up(Post)

    I recently decided to get back to blogging, and I decided as part of that project, I needed to be consistent about it. Sounds straightforward enough. But when it's suddenly May and chaos has exploded

    April at the Shop!(Post)

    Happy spring! I was beginning to think we would never see the day, but here we are. I walked to work this morning! Birds are singing from every tree! Green is starting to tiptoe into the grass! Every

    Pin This(Post)

    A couple of months ago, I ran a new class at the shop — making your own mood board — that was inspired by the boards I spied in the gorgeous home of Heather Hall. If you haven’t heard me gush yet abo

    Fantasy v. Reality and Closing the Gap(Post)

    When I recently began starting my days at the shop by writing a letter, something of a seismic shift occurred. I am generally full of intentions — beautiful ones! — that never see the light of day. In

    Raising Readers(Post)

    I try not to preach. I mean, who among us is really all that qualified to do so? And also, no one wants to listen to someone else claim passionately that they have discovered the key that unlocks the