#24 20 Weeks

Or, a 20 week-old secret 😊. Also: It's time to order pollinators, the palette I want to paint my whole house in, and a carrot cake that might change my mind about cream cheese frosting.

⭕️ Sparrowhawk Native Plants for Summer ordering is open for plant starts, with pick-up in Portland!¹

⭕️ The Dependables Interior designer Beata Heuman recently released a line of home paints, and the swatch chart

is dreamy.²

⭕️ Ooey Gooey Carrot Cake Today is Sebastian’s birthday, and so today I am making a carrot cake. This recipe from Molly Baz’s More is More sounds dense enough to be a full meal.³

⭕️ The Singular Charm of Parker Posey “Walton Goggins, Posey’s friend and co-star in ‘The White Lotus,’ told me that when he first met her, at a friend’s barbecue in the Catskills, he felt instantly drawn into her world… ‘She’s a person capable of doing what Emerson said so long ago — to see the miraculous in the common. And she uses phrases like, Isn’t that a gas?’” This profile in today’s Times Magazine left me hopeful that we’ll see more of Parker Posey soon.⁴

September 2008 | November 2009 | February 2025

I was 22 when Pan was born. We had Orion 14 months later. Those early years are a blur, during which we were learning how to be adults and parents, oh and also I decided to go to grad school in New York

Despite how hard it all was, there isn’t much I would change about how we’ve raised our boys. It’s been the hardest and the best. The only regret I’ve had is that, because of how hard those first few years were, I didn’t enjoy them as much as I wish I had.