After a winter with frostbitten oranges and $2 lemons, the appearance of inexpensive summer produce is making me incredibly happy. I’m eating fruit like I have scurvy! Rob and I stopped in a Mexican produce market on 16th street on our way home last night. We bought two avocados, a giant mango, a big bag…

The wedding season panic continues! Is there anyone out there not worried about what to wear to a wedding this summer? Here is Asako’s requst: Like many of your writers I am frantic with the upcoming wedding season especially since this is my first real adult wedding. Many of the others I’ve missed while I…

I love getting music from friends. My friend, Sarah, makes the greatest indie mix tapes. And Seth brought Rob and me a CD as a hostess present when he came to visit a while back. I’ve recently rediscovered some of these gifted songs when I adding albums to my work iTunes. Anyway, the CD Seth…

On the rare day where the weather is sunny and warm in the city, San Francisco’s women throw down some seriously cute outfits. Most of the time San Franciscans are known only for sporting a good pair of jeans and a blazer. Everyone must have a secret stash of gorgeous warm weather clothes just waiting…

How many places do you think I could register before officially being labeled a crazy person? How about just Gump’s, Sur La Table, Crate and Barrel, REI and The Conran Shop? It’s not that I want that much stuff, it’s just that each store has a few things I really love. If I had to…

When I first bought Lancome’s UV Expert sunblock, I didn’t like it very much. It was super thick and sort of left a white residue on my already extremely pale skin. But then I realized that it contained that fancy, just approved from Canada, mentioned repeatedly in Vogue, Mexoryl UVA ray block mojo. And decided…

Costume parties are the best kinds of parties! Melissa is hosting one in a few weeks: I have been reading through your archives for the past few days, and I absolutely love your blog. I am an urban girl living in the PA country, and at least I can imagine that I can walk to…

Here we go again! I think Rob and I have found our wedding location and my new favorite yellow color has made a comeback: The Sausalito Women’s Club was designed by Julia Morgan and finished in 1918. Still actively meeting, the club now also rents out the facility for weddings. It’s gorgeous, with lots of…

Some New Yorker covers are just so brilliant, so clever, so wonderful that you have to sit staring at them for a few minutes. For me, these covers are almost always from French artist J.J. Sempé. Take for example, this cover from June 2004 with children floating in a wave. Or the drawing posted here…

I’m mighty tired today from the weekend! Rob and I walked home from work on Friday and had a quiet evening at home. On Saturday, we woke up early and drove out to Sausalito. We met with two members of the Sausalito Women’s Club in charge of wedding coordination. They were really nice and this…