Mrs. Allen Makes

Moments of beauty from May 2025

Moments of beauty from April 2025

Moments of beauty from March 2025

I’ve never been one for Valentine’s Day until the morning of, when it’s too late to buy a gift or plan a surprise or do much of anything...

Moments of beauty from January 2024

Moments of beauty from December 2024

Eyes I have, but I see not without your sharp and studied gaze, which finds the smallest sparrow. As if with the eyes of God, you spot...

Purchasing a standing desk has put me on an if-you-give-a-pig-a-pancake sort of office improvement journey. $50 on Facebook marketplace...

For this, sell all you have, and gain what cannot be possessed: an uncut gem, matched only in its mirror, sharpened only by that which is...

Birthdays, I am told, are good for you: the more You have, the longer you live, and Isn’t that just what you want To do today, Sun...

I have been ruined for dumplings. My one international traveling experience to date took me to China, where my fellow travelers and I...

Long before I ever had a porch, I knew I wanted a porch swing. My great-grandparents had one, my grandparents had one, and I felt it...

Moments of beauty from May 2024

Our Song (A Remix) He’s playing our song, and I am (smiling ear to ear), remembering that time I married you. I was who I had always been...

Moments of beauty from March of 2024

Take no thought for tomorrow, with its shrieking gales and skirling snows, nor for its cold that racks the bones— today, it is spring....

Midway through dinner, we realize this is the nicest place we've been out since our honeymoon. It was his idea: dinner before a show. He...

You pluck me flowers from the sky and scatter them for me to catch. They have no substance but belief, which lends imaginations mass....

It is dark too early now, and the sleepiness sets in as the sun goes down. As the nights grow longer and colder, we must make our own...

You are the sound of falling snow, the morel that explodes into existence overnight. You are kite-tails and streamers swirling as you...