Flower Necklace by Ashley Bailey

Grapevine Floral Crown

Photography by Chia Chong Floral Design by Christy Hulsey and Amanda Currier of Colonial House of Flowers Produced by Salted and Styled and Camp Makery for Pottery Barn Have and Hold Concept and Styling by Libbie Summers  Production […]

A Roasting Revolutionary

So there’s this guy in Athens, Georgia, making a living washing dishes and playing in a band. He could marry his long-term girlfriend and settle down, but that would be too conventional. And when you’re an early twenties dishwashing drummer with an unarticulated dream, you expect more from life.

A lot of stories begin like this and most end shortly thereafter with a bloated and lonely middle-aged man eating Slim Jims and playing World of Warcraft on his mom’s calico sofa. That is, unless you’re Philip Brown.

The Wish of a Feather

It wasn’t the first time he had seen me performing this surgery, so this was no WTF moment. He just shook his head and walked the other way. You see, my son seems to understand the oddity of my attraction to the plumage of birds. He’s seen their colorful feathers in specimen jars that line a shelf in my office since as long as he can remember.