Becoming Birdie's Mama

May 13, 2018July 9, 2018

What Becoming A Mother Has Taught Me About Home

Few things can prepare us for the gift and shock of first parenthood. In this Mother’s Day essay, writer and publisher Emily Louise Smith captures the first three months with her daughter and marks the change in their home. . . In honor of my first Mother’s Day and Birdie’s third month, I reflected on … Continue reading What Becoming A Mother Has Taught Me About Home

January 28, 2018January 28, 2018

The Nest

Anyone who has met me knows that I think a lot about place—trees and trails, waterways and dunes, but also about interior spaces—the porches and rooms in which we dream, sleep, read, write, and eat. I’ve written about the historic home in which I grew up, its acres of backyard magnolias… Continue reading The Nest