Some things we need to think about as the oceans rise Content warning: this post discusses natural disasters, including hurricanes and flooding. Some images may be disturbing. Please take care of yourself and click away if these subjects might hurt your heart. June 1st marks the “official” start of hurricane season in the North Atlantic. […]
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MNMA Gift Edit: Valentine’s Day
We’ve pulled together some of our favorite luxury and design gifts for your Valentine’s Day consideration – lavish your loved one, or indulge yourself. We’re as cynical and irreverent as the next modern woman, but we also believe in beauty, pleasure, and thoughtful care for others and ourselves. So whether you’re going all-in on a […]
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Clutter control: 5S organization system for home
Are you a KonMari cultist? Or is your bedroom haunted by a growing pile of unsorted laundry? Or perhaps you’ve found a pseudo-organized happy medium? They say clutter takes an unspoken toll on your focus and creativity by resulting in what you might call visual decision fatigue – there’s lots of evidence showing that clutter […]
Joy of Missing Out: Daylight Savings Time and reconsidering the moment
The time change for Daylight Savings presents an opportunity for reflection. Time is both circular and linear, discrete and continuous, subjective and objective. Sparkpluck Studio How can something that seems so structured and consistent, be so complicated by dualities? We never have enough, yet we waste it. We hurry up to wait. We watch the […]
Plan a grown up stargazing party
Even though I grew up in a pretty rural area, I didn’t see my first shooting star till I was around 30. I remember feeling totally delighted, surprised, and in awe, laying in the backyard of a BnB with my ex in the far Northwest corner of Connecticut, watching the Perseid meteor shower in August. […]
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Wisdom from Instagram: Do it yourself, for yourself
Giving a lazy scroll to my Instagram feed on Sunday, 3 of my favorite accounts aligned with such wisdom, fearlessness, and agency, I had to share them with you. This is a master course in doing it your damn self, investing in your self-sufficiency and survival, and trusting your creativity. Read on to learn […]
The space around the body: 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
I was very happy to learn that two women architects are curating the Venice Architecture Biennale this year (through November 25). Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, founders of Grafton Architects in Dublin, are this year's directors. Their chosen theme, Freespace, has a lot of ideas and values in common with our work in Manuma: […]
Make plans: Summer of our best intentions
For us in the Northeast US, summer is entirely too short. Winter seems to last 8 months, autumn takes its sweet time, and spring lasts about 2 weeks. Plan your summer pleasure A few bits of considered advice have made their way across my screen lately, and it all boils down to this: we as adults […]
Dark Florals: A dim view on May flowers
I found a secondhand copy of Tulip Fever a couple of years ago. It centers around a young married woman who takes an artist lover amidst the fever-pitch tulip obsession of 17th-century Holland. The book is much sexier, with a satisfying twist at the end, than the movie, now streaming on Netflix. I definitely recommend […]
A certain kind of woman: an unconventional Mother’s Day gift guide
An unconventional, but thoroughly considered, list of suggestions for wives, partners, girlfriends, stepmoms, grandmothers, aunties, moms. Mother’s Day gift giving is not terribly creative. It’s extremely gendered, even Victorian. We think we’ve put together some subversive suggestions to help you think outside the box. True, not every suggestion will suit every woman. But every woman […]