I’ve just come home with market fresh porcini mushrooms to prepare for dinner. I’m making tagliatelle ai funghi porcini, a favorite and easy seasonal dish to make.

I am a deskless writer...

A list of simple pleasures that, for me, make the ordinary extraordinary…

Do you love notebooks? I have a thing for notebooks. I am never without paper and pencil…

The most sensual of all cities I’ve travelled to, Venice

I’m wearing my husband’s old flannel shirt. The brushed cotton in deep olive-green and black squares is soft and loose on my body. I found it cleaning out the closet today… Maybe I’m just looking for the familiar...

Looking back at a month helps me plan ahead for the next. It’s both a practical exercise - getting organized! - but it also counts as self-care.

In this crumbling cottage, a summer house that welcomes us every year, that holds us during transitions.