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there’s a certain slant of light

The real reason I flew to California last month is that someone I love very much is quite ill. Emily Dickenson seems to have written the brief on how I feel about it: There’s a certain slant of...

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party on a plate — Indonesian gado gado

I’m not sure when our little bunker became the family party house. But sometime after the last rager Christmas brunch, my sister-in-law and I put on our scheming hats to scheme up a surprise party...

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from up there

A few months ago my dad and I climbed the Dom Tower in Utrecht. A day or so into his visit, my very best “I’ve got it together” face crumpled as I let him in on the daily gauntlet drill: Why does...

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oh canada

Every other year or so Celine and I meet up for an adventure. Last time, she came to Holland and we filled our days with herring and poetry walks and Belgian beer and songwriting. Friendship with...

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wade in the water

When you’ve been out galaxy-trekking for a month, it takes some effort to swing back into your normal orbit again. The physical disorientation wears off quick but jetlag of the heart lingers. I...

May 2, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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fantastical felt

FELT. I’m a fan. It’s soft, sturdy, and is available in the uber-saturated Crayon colours that turn you sappy for elementary school craft time. Felt projects tug me into a fantastical Roald Dahl...

Mar 26, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Goldilocks & the black sticky rice pudding

Not enough warmth in my bones. Not enough photons hitting my eyeballs. March is making it easy to pretend I’m a winter-sedated bear nesting in my flannel sheets each night. Here’s a little...

Mar 17, 2013 Like

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Place me like a seal over your arm. I wear Mimi’s gold monogram on my ring finger. Don’t let mercy and truth forsake you, bind them around your neck. And Grandma’s Tibetan lapis beads drape over my...

Feb 22, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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grand life lessons

When flying off a bike and onto a snowy street, position your hips so as to bruise both your legs equally. Enjoy a week of dancing to “Single Ladies” with epic Beyonce-sized thighs. When pondering...

Feb 15, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Bunker to Bistro in 4 seconds flat

A few months ago, my friend Mirte took me to the magical city of Maastricht (remember our adventure?). After exploring every last charming cobblestoned alley, we reluctantly stepped on the train...

Feb 8, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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babbling in my new love language

One month ago, we said hello to our new wee godson. I was racing the stork neck to neck but since baby was born early, I didn’t quite finish my mama/baby gifts in time for the birth. I was still...

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use the force, Luke

Usually I’m a sucker for reds and purples, jute rugs, dark wood and second-hand kitsch when it comes to interior design, but the crisp minimalist sensibility is growing on me with each snowy walk I...

Jan 23, 2013 Like

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hurricane veg

“Blegh,” I mumbled through a mouthful of soft, garlicky braised kale. “Who wants to eat cold, raw veg in the dead of winter?” Across the table, the Man nodded his head ponderously in erudite...

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confession

This weather triggers three things: 1. introversion 2. plaintive songwriting 3. the visceral urge to make sticky toffee pudding thrice weekly. How is winter pushing your buttons?

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white noise

Twas the night before New Year’s and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. We partied from sundown to mid-evening only — by 9:30pm we were crumpled in an...

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bubble-wrapped lovers

I have a new beau! Truth be told, we’ve known each other since I was 10. But if you peeled back the bark and cut a cross-section of our relationship, it would be a giant sequoia trunk of...

Dec 13, 2012 Like

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winterfell

Oh it is ON. Welcome to town, December! Pleased to see ya round these parts again. Exactly one year ago we were packing our bags for a whirlwind traipse across the States to see friends and family...

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thanksgiving blues [Spiced Pumpkin & Amaranth Bread]

It was just another Wednesday night around these parts. No turkey and no brine bath. No pies in the oven. No bread proofing. Instead of being jampacked with sweet potato ring and wild rice salad...

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SURPRISE!

I guess I thought I’d be a little more jaded by my fifth Western Hemisphere autumn, but it shocks me still – the way the colour jumps out of the trees and yells on cue like at a surprise birthday...

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madame dictator

About two weeks into Psychology 101, I found out the official name of my obnoxious and cruel inner critic. “Super-ego”, Freud called it. “Her Holiness the Dictator of Shoulds” is perhaps a bit more...

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brekkie

The Man and I have odd schedules. Especially this season, with one of us gallivanting around the Netherlands playing shows. So when we have a run of evenings spent apart, we do brekkie. Brekkie...

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tuesday night rock

We snap on our lights and set off squinting into the rain, which is sly and invisible in the six o’clock dark. We stop at a red light and lean precariously against a street light pole, trying to...

Nov 7, 2012 Like

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getting my good cheer on

Hello, you darlings – I’ve missed you terribly. Since we last spoke, the days have shortened and the nights have acquired a fierce bite. My knuckles are red and roughened from night-time bike rides...

Nov 6, 2012 Like

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Moxy and Beetroot Soup with Tempeh Croutons

Lest you think that I hold court in my kitchen with any semblance of pretentious type-A foodie-ism, behold — the humble 30 minute improv dinner. Making do with existing ingredients is one of my...

Oct 24, 2012 Like

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Yes to Maastricht

As a recovering perfectionist, believe me when I tell you that sometimes you need a little jolt of indulgence. Even when your will is balking and you don’t feel you’ve done enough to deserve a...

Oct 22, 2012 Like

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Gingery Kale Salad

OH! This salad makes me want to put on my glad rags and do a little jig. It’s one of my top food revelations of 2012, mostly because its main ingredient has been hiding right under my nose! Classic...

Oct 16, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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the stitch itch

When a chill sets over the land I start feeling a peculiarly strong itch to stitch. Here are two of my most recent parlays into stitchery: On the left is an ode to lovers (and wink at the epic...

Oct 2, 2012 Like

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la vie en cozy

franchement c’est très très cozy, chez nous I’m in love with the darkening autumn evenings that send us inside to brood. Fuzzy dotted socks, fuzzy paisley sweater…all bundled into the pose I mimic...

Sep 27, 2012 Like

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roots.

The high street mannequins are flaunting heavily autumnal get-ups, cable-knit sweaters and corduroy trousers and quirky Aztec-patterned mittens. The ice cream shops are battening down the hatches...

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there’s a certain slant of light

party on a plate — Indonesian gado gado

from up there

oh canada

wade in the water

fantastical felt

Goldilocks & the black sticky rice pudding

like family jewels

grand life lessons

Bunker to Bistro in 4 seconds flat

babbling in my new love language

use the force, Luke

hurricane veg

confession

white noise

bubble-wrapped lovers

winterfell

thanksgiving blues [Spiced Pumpkin & Amaranth Bread]

SURPRISE!

madame dictator

brekkie

tuesday night rock

getting my good cheer on

Moxy and Beetroot Soup with Tempeh Croutons

Yes to Maastricht

Gingery Kale Salad

the stitch itch

la vie en cozy

roots.

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