Martha's Vineyard and New York Updates: Mostly Photos

I've been lucky enough to escape to my island home a few times so far this summer. Everyone requires the occasional break from the hustle and bustle and noise and smells and heat and smog and chicken bones in the street and crowded subway trains of the city once in a while to keep from going crazy. 

This is one of the prettier, calmer moments of the city that remind me how cool it is that I can be here. 

DIY Paper Bag Wrapping Paper

In the words of Broad City: Reduce Reuse Rihanna.

Scott's birthday was earlier this month, and I had several books as presents. As a book-lover myself, I overestimate the excitement others experience when receiving books as gifts. But I think he liked them. Here are the books I chose, if you're in the market for some gifts or light reading: