What makes a home feel cared for
Notes on the quiet work that makes a life hold together.
Harrise · Seventy · Still becoming
Simply
Harrise
For the first time, I have room to ask who I am for myself.
This is my storyWhere I am now
Who am I when I am simply Harrise?
For most of my life, I knew myself in relation to other people: daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend. Those roles are real and precious to me. At seventy, I am asking another question—not to leave that life behind, but to understand the woman who has been living it.
I am not here because I have all the answers. I am here to share what I have experienced, what I still question, and the things I continue to love. If being honest helps someone else feel less alone in an ordinary, complicated life, that is enough.
My story
The years do not replace one another. They gather.
I can look at the woman I was with tenderness. I made much of my life about the people I loved. That was the time I lived in, and it was truly who I was. Now I can also wonder what I might have done differently.
The collections
01
Food & Cooking
I cook to gather people in, not to impress them.
02Flowers & Garden
The garden reminds me that rest and return belong together.
03Animals
Jodi and I share this love: the honesty and company of animals.
04Home
The way I care for a room is one of the ways I care for a life.
05Discoveries
I am asking what I love, what belongs to me, and what comes next.
The journal
Things I Know Now
Cooking without overcomplicating it
A candid consideration of what time has made clear.
What animals teach us
Notes on the quiet work that makes a life hold together.
Beauty and getting older
A candid consideration of what time has made clear.
Loyalty and self-respect
Notes on the quiet work that makes a life hold together.
Why solitude can be restorative
A candid consideration of what time has made clear.
What family photographs preserve
Notes on the quiet work that makes a life hold together.
Then & now
One life, still unfolding.
Then Learning that a family is built in ordinary hours.
Now Still curious. Still keeping beauty close.
A letter, occasionally
Notes from me
What I am noticing, making, questioning, and learning. I will write when there is something honest to share.