Headphones With the Ear Pads Missing
The reputation headphones with missing ear pads have is pretty simple: they’re done. Trash. Toss them, buy new ones, don’t even think about wearing a pair with the cushions gone…
Regular Cement in a Fire Pit: Fine Until It Is Not
I own fourteen fire pits at this point, which is a number I only know because I actually sat down one night and counted them off my phone, scrolling back…
Vinted Wardrobe Spotlight: Paying for Attention
My phone buzzed while I was mid scroll through my own Vinted closet, seeing what needed reshuffling before the weekend. My friend Marnie, who’d come round to drop off a…
Candles in the Bedroom: Cozy Habit or Bad Idea?
Fran was staying over for a conference at Brown, sleeping in my spare room, which in a hundred and thirty year old triple-decker means sleeping approximately four feet from whatever…
Is a Fire Pit on a Deck Actually Safe?
I have measured the distance between my fire pit and my deck railing four separate times this summer, with an actual tape measure, standing there in my socks like a…
Bed Frame Quizzes and What They Get Wrong
My buddy Marcus texted me a link at eleven at night with the message “just take this thing it’ll be faster than asking you.” It was one of those “What…
Sizing a Lampshade by Eye and by Ruler
I got my first lampshade rule from a laminated card that came free with a lamp base I bought at a yard sale in Pawtucket for eight dollars. The card…
Where I Would Shop for Table Lamps
I was standing in my living room at eleven at night, barefoot on the rug, holding a lamp up against the wall like I was trying to guess its weight.…
The Penny in the Vase: Old Trick or Old Wives Tale?
A friend of mine, Jonah, walked into my kitchen last week, took one look at the mason jar of grocery store tulips on the counter, and said, “Why is there…
Pillows Behind the Headboard: Solving the Odd Gap
Okay so real talk, I thought pillows behind a headboard was one of those things influencers do purely so the bed looks like it belongs in a boutique hotel lobby,…