• Why Finnish Babies Sleep in Cardboard Boxes (love) • The Kendama: a wooden(!) toy that is about to go viral in the U.S. • Cute, fun, beanbag toss game • Gene Weingarten’s “Fatal Distraction” is one of the most horrific, has-stuck-with-me pieces of journalism I have ever read. It ran in The Washington Post […]
• I’m not original when it comes to perfume. My favorites starting in the early 1990s include Tribe, CK one (which I wrote about here), Ralph Lauren’s Romance and now, Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb. When I put it on, I can’t stop smelling my wrists (which is weird, I know). The problem? It’s so expensive—until I […]
The world, things, stories are so interesting and so much of it can be found online. I think Andy is tired of me saying, several times every night, “Hey, look at this!” and shoving my laptop in his face. So, with a nod to A Cup of Jo, I’m going to start sharing Links I […]
Last year I wrote an essay for The New York Times Motherlode blog titled “The Perfect Backpack.” You can read it here. After all that, we ended up getting Sophie a new backpack this year. Two reasons: (1) Last year’s backpack was too small for a regular size piece of paper—and her preschool teachers suggested […]
