Off the record...

November always sneaks up on me. The air’s cooler, the trees are bare, and my kitchen smells like cookies; test batches before the real baking starts. My daughter’s coming home soon for her first Christmas break from university, and I’m already picturing the chaos: mixing dough, joking about who’...

The house is quieter now. My daughter just left for university, and after a summer full of work, travel, and helping her prepare for that huge step, I finally have space to sit down and breathe, and to share the new collections we’ve been building since spring. Each one was created in the middle ...

It always amazes me how much kids can express themselves with just a bunch of markers and a blank page. I’ve seen it over and over; through my daughter, my niece, and the kids in our courtyard. Their drawings aren’t just drawings. They’re stories, feelings, and bouts of imagination that deserve m...