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emily

  • Rain Installation at the Buffalo Bayou Cistern

    On Friday night last week, I zipped over to Buffalo Bayou Park to have a peek at the opening of Rain by Magdalena Fernandez at the Houston Cistern. I’ve been wanting to get to…

    December 14, 2016
  • Happy Friday!

    Happy Friday! It’s been a chilly week here in Houston, which means low 50’s, so really not too bad. We’ve still been able to go outside and to the playground, saving our sanity. We ended…

    December 9, 2016
  • Family Photos at Malahide Castle in the Cold

    When we were home, my friend Naomi offered to take a few family photos for us. I so wish Naomi had been around for more of Maya’s little life – these are some of the…

    December 8, 2016
  • Well and Truly Irish – I’m an Irish Citizen!

    I applied for my citizenship last summer and finally got to receive my naturalization certificate when we were in Ireland last week! We had originally planned to go to Ireland for Christmas this year, but…

    December 6, 2016
  • Maya Meets Santa (It Doesn’t Go Well)

    Just in case your Monday is as dreary and rainy as ours, here is something that will surely make you chuckle. Maya met Santa! And it didn’t go very well at all. Santa was…

    December 5, 2016
  • Happy Friday!

    Happy Friday, friends. TGIF, for real. What a week. After ten days in Ireland (photos and stories from that visit next week!), we had a slightly hairy journey home – complete with airsickness and missing…

    December 3, 2016
  • Another Goodbye

    This will be the third post I’ve written about saying goodbye to a foster baby in the short time we’ve been fostering. And this will be the second post about the same baby, if…

    December 1, 2016
  • A Return

    Late last night, we returned from ten cosy and heart-restoring days in Dublin. There’s a pile of laundry the size of Maya sitting in the closet and the contents of our suitcases piled on…

    November 30, 2016
  • Baby DIY / Maya’s Magnetic Fridge Wall

    Do we call this a DIY? By my old standards, probably not. By current standards, it totally makes the very low bar. When we were in Maine this summer, Maya loved inspecting and staring…

    October 18, 2016
  • Poetry on Houston Streets

    A few months ago, I wrote about new banners going up along the streets of downtown Houston for Local Magazine. I interviewed the design team at Core Design Studio, Alan Krathaus and Fiona McGettigan…

    October 17, 2016