Congratulations! You have a beautiful new family! Maybe that means you married your love and together you now have a whole passel of kids. Or maybe you just moved in with your significant other and got a new puppy. Maybe an elderly relative or a younger sibling have joined your household. Maybe you’re celebrating for […]

These tiny snippets of daphne are an absolute marvel to me. Not just because they smell so impossibly, absurdly, WILDLY good. Although, swoon: the fragrance is out of the world, unreasonably joyful, exuberantly ecstatic, like lemons having a honeysuckle orgasm. They smell so good that I’m carrying my little bunch around the house with me and […]

Dearheart. Did you know that I’ve been sending this missive since 2011? Ten years. And I haven’t missed a single week. So it feels momentous– scandalous– to say this. I’m going on sabbatical from this weekly missive for at least a month or two. I’ll miss you so much– how vividly I hold you in my mind as I write, […]

Hello dear kindred spirits, oh you of the Big Feelings and tender heart. You with the big dreams and the thin skin. You with the wild gifts and the wild longings. I’m thinking about you in this season. How you might be feeling just the tiniest bit floored and overwhelmed and scattered and bewildered and […]

Today I want to give you a communication tool you can put to use right away in your marriage, partnership, or workplace. It’s a fork. But it’s also the best communication tool we’ve ever learned and has saved my marriage more times than you might believe. My husband Nick and I swear by it. We […]