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Halloween 1976, the year my parents dressed my sister Molly and I up as bunnies (pre-Christmas Story) and took us trick and treating. When we got to the house at the curve in the road, our neighbor opened the door, had no candy, but returned with a c
Pssssst. Great news! We’ve extended our submissions deadline for VERANDA’S World’s Most Beautiful Gardens until August 15. Just like summer, there’s still time on the clock. Two more weeks to send us your dreamiest porches and
Earlybird breakfast crew, summer vacation.
Four days in Franciacorta- Italy’s hidden hotbed of ridiculously good wine. Packing up my things in my hotel room, jamming as many bottles as I can into my suitcase, I am rolling through the story I’m here to write in my head. Mornings de
Oh, the places we’ll go… and by places, I mean those first apartments we rarely talk about in polite conversation, the 90s color that spread faster than COVID, million-dollar intuition, Miles Redd, and so much more. Chicago-area designer
Chickens up, cows up, kids up- Morning roll call in Montana. @mcgauleypatrick @alindsey17
A great little Giving Tuesday idea, one that rolls all that helplessness we feel when someone near us has cancer into… a bright future for a student. (How’s that for something we can all get behind?) Earlier this month, my dear friend Bl
Since my early teens, I’ve been trying to position “moody” as cool (with varying degrees of success). Touring this warm, Euro-classical house in Newport, Rhode Island, I feel like my case again gains merit. A low-lit, hearty, whispe
Feeling all the Stand By Me vibes on this out-of-service railroad path where Roundout Creek spills into the Hudson. Morning walks with friend and fellow writer @tracey_minkin had all the storytelling and intrigue, talks of writing and craft—jus
It’s going to be the parlor chat of all parlor chats: designers, please join @verandamag one week from today for a deep dive into Newport’s gilded, Gothic, shingled, and ever-evolving style playbook (pictured: Charles H. Baldwin House c.
Can you even stand it? I will never tire of the warmth of a great house, grounds you can ramble across in boots, the kind of place where everyone feels good in their own skin. Large or small, humble or grand, it never matters. Warmth is why I love ho
When the cat’s away on a book tour, the mice…. steal all his late-blooming dahlias? At ceramicist and garden magician Christopher Spitzmiller’s Clove Brook Farm with @ashleywhittakerdesign, clipping flowers before the rain comes in
I love how that palm looks like a little lawn ornament next to its big leafy neighbor- a swirly pinwheel you could just pick up and tuck into your bag. I saw these two this morning at sun-up and wondered what they chat about all day? Current events (
One week until… back in Charleston! If ever there was a reminder of how much we missed the world and its creative fireworks, it’s this: @thedesignsocialpopup hits the Holy City on June 9, when a bevy of wildly inspired makers will gather
The sunrise shift. One way or another, we’re all cranking out our papers this morning.
What you get when you trade writing/magazine talk with your magnificent rancher cousin: first-rate required reading. She’s a pro source who farms and cooks and rides and knows good coffee, and who long ago married both a cowboy and an Indian (h
Snow-capped everything... skiing here can sometimes feel like a beautiful train ride through the forest. One that goes way too fast and appears out of control most of the time, but is still the most beautiful ride.
Election Day Situation 2020. A towering dose of sanity....
Happy Halloweening in Whitefish. What’s truly terrifying is how much I love it here: temps in the 40s, smell of chimney smoke everywhere, broad downtown streets... even a gracious tip-of-the-hat welcome from this gentleman. #whitefishmontana