Category Chez moi
Wall Colors (can you tell we’re related?)
I live in Washington, DC. My twin sister, Heather, lives in Boise, Idaho. Totally independently, and without any input from the other, we each painted accent walls in our homes. I brought some giant paint chips with me when I visited Heather last weekend to give her a sense of what I’d done. Strangely enough, […]
Nouveau chez moi
As you know, I moved into a new apartment back in June. Since moving day, I have enjoyed a six-week visit from Amanda, an Aretha Franklin concert, a two-week trip to Peru, a weekend at the beach, a weekend in Charlottesville, a bout of illness, and a long weekend with my family in Idaho. Oh, […]
Container Gardens
In 2007 I decided to take a job in Washington, DC, rather than stay in New York City. When I told other people what I’d decided, the general response was bafflement. Beyond the categorical bewilderment that New Yorkers feel at the concept of living anywhere other than the center of the universe (nowhere is more […]
Moving – Part 2
We lived a little more than a mile (1.2 miles, to be exact) from the high school in La Grande, Oregon. For some reason we didn’t qualify for bus service, and I wasn’t always able to get a ride with Dad on his way to work. So, during those years before I got a drivers […]
Moving – Part 1
Yesterday morning I rolled out of bed, bought out the box supply of the UPS store across the street, and in the next 24 hours transformed my apartment from this: Into this: During college I prided myself on being able to move the entirety of my belongings in a single trip in a min-van (thanks, […]
Chez moi
For my second blog post ever, I will give you a tour of my apartment. I had been meaning to take good pictures of my apartment ever since I finished decorating, and even more since I decided to move to a new apartment — but somehow I’d never gotten around to it. At first I […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 