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Perfumer H Moss Incense

Complex, green, and somehow manages to smell like my childhood in Upstate NY. Bonus points for limited availability in the US meaning you don’t smell it everywhere.

Making space for your children’s art

It makes me happy every time I look at it, it makes them proud to see it featured around our house, and when placed intentionally, makes our home look both more designed and more authentic.

Old cookbooks

Aside from the potential culinary inspiration (or cautionary tales), they also serve as a fascinating portal into how people lived and ate (or aspired to live and eat). Find them at library sales, used bookshops, your relatives’ shelves.

A list of goals that are not suited to a productivity tracker

A list of goals that aren’t suited to a productivity tracker but will make you feel more human, inspired by the book in the photo below, in no particular order. Giving gifts to friends, for no reason or holiday but just because you thought of them. Including inscriptions in gifted books. Writing in cursive. With a fountain pen. Instead of agonizing over a multi-sentence inscription, try to be as good as “To the Binghams, delightful friends and discriminating gourmets. Frank G. Ashbrook”

Perfumer H Moss Incense

Complex, green, and somehow manages to smell like my childhood in Upstate NY. Bonus points for limited availability in the US meaning you don’t smell it everywhere.

Making space for your children’s art

It makes me happy every time I look at it, it makes them proud to see it featured around our house, and when placed intentionally, makes our home look both more designed and more authentic.

Old cookbooks

Aside from the potential culinary inspiration (or cautionary tales), they also serve as a fascinating portal into how people lived and ate (or aspired to live and eat). Find them at library sales, used bookshops, your relatives’ shelves.

A list of goals that are not suited to a productivity tracker

A list of goals that aren’t suited to a productivity tracker but will make you feel more human, inspired by the book in the photo below, in no particular order. Giving gifts to friends, for no reason or holiday but just because you thought of them. Including inscriptions in gifted books. Writing in cursive. With a fountain pen. Instead of agonizing over a multi-sentence inscription, try to be as good as “To the Binghams, delightful friends and discriminating gourmets. Frank G. Ashbrook”