Musings

I can’t do it! I overhear my older daughter slam her hands on the keys releasing a somewhat satisfying cacophony. She’s learning a new song and is caught at a place...

It’s been a season of muting, a conscious decision to be selective with my intake. There are other seasons where I’ve postured myself like a sponge, sitting saturated with all...

The sap from our oak trees is beginning to leave sticky traces on my car and the morning air holds a crisp, like the first bite of a good apple...

For the past year, we’ve somehow managed to stave off the virus trail that follows every new toddler in daycare, but it finally caught up to us and the nagging...

Our team put together the loveliest surprise 10 year celebration at the end of June. Amidst the streamers, twinkle lights, bagels and cookies, I was moved to tears by the...

If you read our May musings, my words ring just as true this month - the complexities of organized holidays are impossible to hold together. If Father’s Day is painful,...

It’s a complicated season, I know. Running a business largely dependent on collective celebrations, I struggle at times to sit under the banner of “Happy __________” - festivities for some...

In February, we coincidentally had a photoshoot in the very same building that our first studio was in nearly ten years ago. Walking along the unpaved side of Mill Street...

A woman came into Sidebloom the other day. A last minute gift for a friend, she says. I ask her how New York was, remembering our last conversation just before she left...

If you’ve been with us over the years, there have been many variations of this sort of writing - sharing the in-between moments, thoughts that have been flowing like a...

As the years pass, the more I want my reality to reflect, “good things take time.” The best things do – wine, stew, bread, paintings, character. Historically, my impatience has...

“It’s dinner time! Sit down, sit down,” I usher my girls to the table as I shoo flies away and set down napkins and milk cups. The set-up is a...