It’s so fun to come home from a weekend shopping trip with new pieces of clothing to last you all week. Thanks to sales at Club Monaco and Anthropologie, I’m adding a few new pieces to the mix this week: Skirt – This isn’t the exact skirt I bought but it is similar in volume…

Rob and I have major bike fever thanks to the Tour de France. Jean and Trent originally got us hooked on the three week race and all the celebratory bike/french things you can do along with it. For the next few weeks, I’ll be putting up a few “Tour fever” posts for the occasion. Where…

I’m probably in the best shape of my life right now, which of course means that I feel terrible…usually like I’ve been hit by a bus! As I write this on Sunday night after a weekend of three sports, my arms hurt, my hands hurt, my back hurts, my legs hurt, my butt hurts. Rob…

It was kind of a slow week here in San Francisco. There was supposed to be a heatwave, but temperatures stayed pretty mild. I made pickles. I partied. I shopped online. It was a good time. Here’s what I learned: Pickled carrots are super easy to make and really delicious. Bouldering is a hard workout…

Lela recently wrote in with fun request for an upcoming visit to the Capitol: I’m going to visit my sister in Washington, D.C. in a couple of weeks (read: July in DC, hot and humid). We are going to a concert together, and then afterwards, going to get a drink with my high school crush/lust…

Rear Window earns a high place on my list of the best movies of all time. I watched it again last night, a perfect movie choice for an apartment dweller during a heat wave. The technical quality of Hitchcock’s directing and vision is amazing, all those small details! The huge apartment courtyard set is a…

Dahlias are such happy flowers! Victorians apparently used them as symbols of “gratitude, dignity and good taste.” My early October wedding will hit the tail end of their season. I’m hoping I can find some of the white and yellow varieties for the arrangements and bouquets. Luckily, I have time to do a “flower rehearsal”…

Amber and Matt did a fantastic job hosting a 4th of July party at their apartment last night! Rob and I took the bus up to Russian Hill a little after six for the party. What a spread! They had made big platters of roast beef and shrimp tacos, guacamole, cole slaw, chips and dip.…

Summer outfits can be challenging for those of us with bony figures and pale skin. I always find it much easier to dress in the fall and winter when layering is king. Marissa wrote in with a request for her thin frame: I’m built like you, only taller. I’m just under 6 feet tall and…

One of my favorite ways to daydream is to look for old resorts and hotels online. Places that have a one-of-a-kind elegance and history. In California, this would include the Hotel del Coronado, the Claremont, the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, the Ahwahnee, Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn (they don’t need to all be fancy…just historic) It’s…