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Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
I had ZERO interest in reading Big Magic since the last (and only) book I've read of Elizabeth Gilbert's was Eat Pray Love and eight years later, I still haven't gotten over how much I disliked that...
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A Few Days in San Diego
A couple of weeks before Christmas vacation started for Bart and Ella, we started tossing around the idea of going somewhere to kick off the holidays. I have lots of happy memories of visiting southern...
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Raiding My Sister's Closet: Hats
One of the great benefits of having a sister who is a fashion blogger is that not only do I have someone to have endless conversations about blogging with, but also whenever I come to visit, Merrick...
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Grapefruit Sugar Cookies
I can count on one hand the number of times I've made sugar cookies as an adult. I just don't really love them - they seem overly sweet to me and kind of bland (give me a chocolate chip cookie any day...
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Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living by Jason Gay
I saw Little Victories advertised on the back of BookPage and it said something like, "Give this to fans of Dave Barry and [another name I didn't recognize and/or can't remember]."That's all the...
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My 5 Current Favorite Beauty Products
I make no pretenses that I'm some makeup or beauty guru (you're looking at my blog and thinking, "No kidding, Janssen").But last year, after months of seeing pictures of myself and thinking, "My skin...
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Dream Jeans
This post is in partnership with Scoop NYCIf you've been following my blog for any amount of time, you know that I wear jeans basically every day.It doesn't matter if it's 115 degrees or 15 degrees....
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Parenting as an Introvert
A few years ago, a friend of mine commented that, as an extrovert, having an introverted child was one of the most difficult things she'd experienced in her life.I fall on the opposite end of the scale...
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7 Picture Books about Food + Annie's Homegrown
This post was created in partnership with Annie's HomegrownI sometimes joke that I would hard-pressed to decide whether I like food or books better. So of course, there's nothing I like better than a...
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Simple Thai Chicken Curry
I can never quite decide if I love Indian or Thai food better.When we go to an Indian restaurant, I think, "okay, I love Indian food the most. Nothing could be better than this." And then I go to a...
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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
There’s nothing quite like reading on a crowded airplane while trying not to let your seatmate see tears running down your face.When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir of a Paul, a neurosurgeon at...
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Fitting Exercise In When You Have Little Kids
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #TryALittleGoodness #CollectiveBiasWith Star rapidly approaching her first birthday (seriously,...
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My Best Tricks for Scoring Deals on ThredUp
I posted a picture on Instagram of this sweater a few weeks ago and mentioned it was from ThredUp and someone asked how I find cute things on there.Well, it only takes one question for me to barrage...
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Back-Up Plans (and my Favorite Garlic Bread)
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #MangiaTonight #CollectiveBiasThe interesting thing about blogging (or at least my blogging) is...
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Tell Me What to Read: Winter 2016 Edition
I'm just about done with my last book from the Fall 2015 Tell Me What to Read (just waiting for it to come back from the library so I can finish it up) and I'm ready for a new round of suggestions!I've...
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The First Say Hi Society Mini Blog Conference
On January 15th, we had our first Say Hi Society mini blog conference, and it was fantastic.I really felt like there was a space for something like this - great content, a small group, affordable...
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Shopping Outside My Comfort Zone
Last summer, facing down my first summer as an Arizona resident, I sprung for the most expensive pair of sandals I'd ever owned (they were $90 and that was approximately four times more than I'd ever...
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A Weekend in Sedona
I think we're pretty good at traveling as a family.What we apparently aren't good at doing is going on any trips without our children.In January, the Sedona Rouge Resort and Spa invited us to come...
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Tell Me What to Read: Winter 2016 Reading Picks
Reading all the suggestions on these Tell Me What to Read posts is basically my favorite activity of all time (possibly even more than actually reading, if I'm allowed to say so).Also, MULTIPLE people...
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Seven Things I (Try to) Do Every Day
This post is sponsored by the PowerMeA2Z website from the Arizona Department of Health ServicesIn Gretchen Rubin's (very excellent) book about habits, Better Than Before, she mentions that we repeat...
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