What’s everyone reading right now? I’m listening to the audio book of Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed for our book club—on 1.5x speed. (Did you know you can do that?) Each chapter is taken from an answer she gave under the pseudonym “Sugar” in an advice column and some are so heartbreaking. I was wiping my eyes after one and had to say aloud (to no one else in the car) “that was so good!” Other times I bristle at the authority with which she says something must be and I realized that I have a slight aversion to people giving advice with total certainty. It’s been interesting. I do wish it were read with more different voices, however. The voice matters so much, which is why I still prefer to read a book on page (or screen) whenever possible.
Anyway, I posed the question on Instagram last week and loved hearing all of the recommendations—some I was familiar with, but so many new-to-me titles as well. Right now, a few top picks were: Keep Reading >
Davis lies just 20 minutes west of downtown Sacramento, so we’re lucky to get to take advantage of all the capitol city’s offerings.
I may have mentioned that I lived there for a year between graduate and undergraduate school (I worked as a substitute teacher), and it really feels like the city has grown and changed a lot since then. There are so many new restaurants and shops opening up, and there’s a palpable feeling of excitement amongst residents about the community. I’d like to do a better job of featuring local highlights on here, from time to time. Keep Reading >
Some of you might notice that this image looks familiar. A few years back I shared it as that fashion image I have pinned on Pinterest that I just keep coming back to, over and over again. (I’d be curious to know yours, if you have one, too.) There’s something about this combination of cropped, slim army-green pants, and natural leather, gladiator sandals that has yet to get old for me.
However, though that outfit still works today, the links for the sandals I chose based off it don’t. So I thought it was time for a whole new crop of favorite summer sandals, by category. An almost embarrassingly long, best-in-class, exhaustively deep-thoughts-on-sandals post, if you will—because as a California girl, a one-time 15-mile-a-day-average New York-girl, and a frequent traveler, you can bet I’ve thought a lot about sandals.
