I realized I really love interviewing people.

Written by Erin Bakker Last Sunday was rainy, which is basically an invitation to cover the dining table with every art supply you own and see what happens. HG invited three other 10-year-olds over for what she called Collage Club. There was no elaborate plan. No carefully selected craft with a picture of what everybody was supposed to make at the end. Just a table full of stuff and permission to make something. Paint. Glitter. Beads. Paper. Shells. Markers. Glue. Pom-poms. R

Written by Erin Bakker A couple of years ago, all three of my kids were homeschooling, and somehow a science lesson ended with me ordering three hunks of shampoo ginger root from a grower on Etsy. This is very on-brand for how homeschool worked at our house. We learned about something interesting. I immediately decided we needed to grow it. Shampoo ginger was especially fascinating because the plant produces these funny cone-shaped blooms that eventually fill with a clear, fr

I love a room that looks like it happened over time. Not staged. Not overly matched. Not like somebody walked into one store, bought the entire vignette, and called it done. Collected. That is my favorite.

Use the good dishes. And plant the flowers.