I know you were all waiting on the edge of your seat for the next thrilling episode of Nicole and Her Coffee, and I am happy to relate that you can all breathe a sigh of relief. My new coffee maker has arrived! Isn’t it beautiful? I’m hoping that German engineering will break the long […]
Coffee Crisis
November 10, 2025 by
Every single morning, the first thing I do after waking is carefully make my way down the stairs and pour my pre-measured water from the coffee pot into the appropriate receptacle in the machine, and then press start. After that I drink two big glasses of water and head to the bathroom for my morning […]
It’s Tiny Secret Festive Season!
November 3, 2025 by
Don’t Call It A Comeback The first of November marks the start of Tiny Secret Festive Season, and if you don’t know what Tiny Secret Festive season is, that’s because it’s something I made up back in 2019. I created the season to combat the subset of people who have things going on in their […]
Bounty and the Bust
September 22, 2025 by
Who Loves You? I was listening to an interview with Anne Lamott, who is a writer and person that I very much admire. She was talking about the concept of self-care, and how her entire life these days is based on self-care, which felt quite resonant to me. Recently someone asked me what I do […]
The Great Judy Blume Re-read
September 18, 2025 by
Thank you all for your lovely and thoughtful comments on Monday’s post about Using The Good Things/ Driving The Ferrari. I feel inspired anew to revel in the things I love and to pass along the things I don’t. Writing it, I thought of the Mary Oliver poem “Storage.” There’s no one like Mary Oliver. […]
Pulling The Ferrari Out Of The Garage
September 15, 2025 by
Several months ago I listened to a podcast interview of a man who, with the exception of his car and the possessions he had hastily packed into it, lost everything in the Los Angeles fires. He was remarkably sanguine about the situation, saying that although his house and everything in it burned to the ground, […]
If I Had A Billion Dollars
September 8, 2025 by
If you had asked me one month ago what I have in common with Mike Vrabel, head coach of the New England Patriots, I would have stared into space for a moment before responding that we are both humans living on the planet at the same time, but nothing else. That was before my husband, […]
