A Summer Road Trip
Back in the spring, when the air still carried a chill, I started working on a piece for Edible DC about a summer road trip to Loudoun County. I was already hungering for summer. This assignment was the perfect excuse to get a sneak peek of the restaurants, farm stands, and markets that would shape the season ahead.
I wrote the piece in the small spaces of time between raising kids and running a bookstore. The best part was bringing my three daughters with me to visit restaurants and farm stores. Writing with so much else going on can feel impossible, but having a deadline helped.
My eldest with a goat at Georges Mill Farm, one of the local businesses featured in the piece.
After a few research-y road trips to out west I escaped to the beautiful Zigbone Farm, a retreat center in Maryland, to find some quiet time to write.
Old Town Books is hosting Zigbone alumni for a scholarship fundraising reading, more info here. I’ll also be co-hosting a readers retreat at the farm in 2026!
A charming outbuilding at Zigbone.
After the issue came out, it was surreal to see stacks of the magazine being handed out at the farmers market, the very places I had been dreaming about only a few months earlier.
Me and my two-year-old sidekick one hot market morning.
