My Friend Maia

“A lavishly designed, full-color photographic record of that American shopping institution, the thrift store. The culmination of a decade of “thrifting” by renowned book artist Emily K. Larned, Thrift Store contains photographs and essays that celebrate the joys of second-hand shopping. Originally published as a limited-edition artist book, this beautifully done trade edition has been…

"I wrote an essay in second grade, entitled "Being Greatful." I mis-spelled grateful and I was reprimanded, but I now believe we become great in proportion to how grateful we are. You receive vitality and comfort every time you are grateful"                                         …

  So you know how I am always spectacularly late to the loveliest of parties because I live in a bubble and very rarely pop my head out? Well yes: I am still that way. Still oblivious to the wonderful until it comes along and joy slaps me around the chops. So it was with…

Mark and Finley have a new ritual. Every night before they go upstairs for bathtime, they stand in the front window and say goodnight to Luna Moon… Which would be utterly, scrumptiously cute, were it not for the fact that with no guarantee of the full moon Finley expects being there, most nights, bless his…