written November 2022 In August, I deleted Instagram and Facebook for an entire month. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision, sparked mostly by a discussion led by Ashlee Gadd in her…
Category: <span>From My Desk</span>
All over my social media feeds, I see people rushing toward fall. They’re buying fall decor—pumpkins and fall leaves and all things orange and brown. They’re posting shopping hauls with…
At the beginning of last year, I set a challenge for myself of learning to keep house from Victorian homemaking books (a surprisingly prolific genre, as it turns out). I…
Six months ago, we went to church, in person, for the first time since the pandemic began. For me it had been fifteen months—fifteen months since I sat in a…
I’ve always known I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. I can think of no better career than to be the one to shape the earliest experiences of my children’s…
Since the beginning of this year, I’ve been writing about Victorian homemaking and doing my best to put nineteenth-century homemaking advice into practice in my own home. It’s been a…
I’ve been trying to follow Victorian homemaking advice for a little while now. But I’ve been ignoring what most nineteenth-century experts would actually tell me if they were here right…
Last week, I went through my to-do list on Instagram using a Victorian-era strategy. The idea comes from a chapter titled, “Comfort for the Discouraged Housekeeper.” It’s the last chapter…
We’re in lockdown. Again. Do you remember the moment you realized all of this wasn’t going to be over in six weeks? I remember thinking all we had to do…
I’m trying to plan a wedding in the middle of a global pandemic. It’s going about as well as you might expect. It’s overwhelming to try and make plans when…