by Lauren Slayton | Aug 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
I had lunch with an old friend yesterday. By old I mean a friend I’ve know since grade school, god knows we’re so far from old. We talked about work. He teaches film at Columbia and is in the process of making his first feature film. We moved onto friends, some soon...
by Lauren Slayton | Aug 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
from Istock, I don’t have that much free time. In the early days of this blog, I read a post on a friend’s well-established blog (AKA as blog people actually read and enjoy) about meeting some of her blogging friends. At that point blog friends was as...
by Lauren Slayton | Jul 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
Soft Serve Fruit Co To me, summer means the sweet local corn, gazpacho, ceviche and the perfect glass of rose’. I realize my list omitted many people’s cool, creamy, summery favorite ice cream. After our frozen yogurt fuss of last summer, we’re not going to...
by Lauren Slayton | Jul 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
The desk that inspired it all, not mine it’s Fit Chick’s If you came to my kitchen you could open my spice drawer and see bottles alphabetized from Arrowroot to Vanilla Bean. In my refrigerator there’s usually a pitcher of iced tea, another of...
by Lauren Slayton | Jul 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
This “wonderful child” isn’t anyone I know I know there are some people who think all children are wonderful. After nine-plus years of parenting and plenty of play dates I know this is not true. There was one child who expressed his disappointment at...
