Author Archives: Andrea Y. Griffith

  I was walking Mr. Henry around the neighborhood last night and found these flowering branches on the ground. The gardeners were going to throw them away so I rescued a few. So beautiful they don’t look real. Appropriate for Easter week. We headed over to Richland this last weekend to visit my parents. WeContinue reading “Spring is coming around”

I haven't read The Great Gatsby since I was a junior in high school (um, 1995?). Rereading Gatsby was pleasurable yet strange. I remembered so much. Partly because we dissected it to death: the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg have never felt far away but partly Gatsby strikes a nerve in the young. In contemplatingContinue reading “Week 15/52: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald [and a lot of other random book stuff]”

I may have accidentally picked up Tina Fey's new book while at Costco this morning picking up our picture order. Whoops. I read about 1/3 of it during the girls naptime this afternoon. Snortingly funny.  

I realized that I never posted about the Ideal Bookshelf that Jane Mount, a New York artist, painted for us. This was Telfer’s Father’s Day present and I picked it up shortly before I ended up in the hospital so I never mentioned it. It hangs in our entryway and we just love it. SoContinue reading “April Bookshelf”