I bet that if you are a creative - what you were drawn to as a child has informed who you are today, as an adult. I used to build forest forts to host tea p...

Back when I signed my first lease in 2016, I wasn't planning on opening a boutique. The election had just happened, I was a craft show artist experiencing et...

I imagine most folks reading this have paid vacation time, sick days, and other things generally found in the "pros" column of working for someone else. For ...

From the very start, this book pulled me in, and mesmerized me all the way through. The main character is a mess of wildness and poetry, and the story is com...

On any day of the week, no matter the weather, you might see a petite woman in sun glasses, wide brimmed hat, and possibly wearing an apron. That's Chong. Sh...

I have lived on my own since I was 19, and one of the things I learned from my parents that I took with me as an adult providing for themselves, was the impo...

If you garden, the first jewels of the growing season are often beautiful, orbital or oblong, fiery or sweet spring dug radishes. The nip in the night air is...

I love a kitchen project. I have been making a ritual of Sundays lately, batch cooking several things that will make feeding myself throughout the week easy,...

A few years ago, I went on a solo day trip to Salem, MA in search of some inspiration. At the time, I didn't think that owning a shop was a realistic possibi...

When it comes to self help books, or anything labeled as personal development, I resist - heavily. I have a pervasive and unexplained tendency to reject anyt...

How are you holding up this winter? If you have even the slightest tendency towards SAD, then by now - the grey days and constant shivering are starting to t...

I am not the "up and at 'em" type. Furthermore, I generally open my eyes each day with a bed to myself, and - especially on the windy winter days of late - I...

Beet-pickled eggs are a treat for the senses. Not only are they delicious, adding shredded beets to the pickling liquid imparts a lovely pink hue and a su...

Do you like bitter greens? Endive, radicchio, arugula, frisse, watercress, broccoli rabe? I was at a talk a while back being given by an herbalist and naturo...

I did these as a riff on the Bon Me staples when I went gluten free, and barely miss the original. Those deviled tea eggs, though. Those I make a stop for wh...