• Summer Everywhere

    dairy barI’ve spent a lot of time this summer requiring ice cream, french fries, iced Coca Cola and zero agendas. Unfortunately the agenda is still always looming, but at least I can pretend it’s not while eating a cherry-dipped vanilla ice cream cone.


  • Fighting Complacency

    Comfort is the enemy of achievement.


  • This Is What I Can Do

    I cannot change yesterday but I can change tomorrow.via STAY POSITIVE!


  • Slow Motion Kittens

    Here are our three fosters near the end of their time with us, when they had unlimited energy and were figuring out their toys for the first time.


  • This Week I Had a Birthday and Somebody Gave Me a Kitten

    sleeping kittenSurprise! It’s Morris, one of the kittens we fostered. Also, he was a gift from Konrad, who I think got him just as much for himself as he did for me. Here he is sleeping under my arm early one morning. Black cats on iPhone’s are so hard to capture!


  • New Video Diaries

    It’s time to begin a new chapter here at Estate – video diaries! Konrad and I have been talking about documenting our lives in short, music video form for a long while now, and we’ve just finished the first in what we plan to be regular uploads.

    This one happened over the course of a weekend while the classic car show was in town. Konrad was in heaven over the bevy of automobiles, so we watched the cars parade through town and had a picnic at an outdoor showing of ‘American Graffiti.’


  • The Only Thing You Have to Do

    small steps every dayThis applies to everything.

    via A House in the Hills


  • Modern Day Self Sabotage

    When I wake up every morning, ask me what things will make me happy today, and I will tell you: being with my family, eating good food, having rewarding, meaningful conversations with friends, learning interesting things about the world, going on adventures, and so on. Now ask me at the end of the day how I spent my free time, I will tell you: Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, responding to angry internet comments.Such a great quote from this article on time.com.


  • Office Still Life

    desk in office


  • There’s Something in the Air

    la luneA full moon on Friday the 13th. Magic indeed. 😉