Three days in Lisbon without a plan
No reservations, no list of sights, just a good pair of shoes and a city built on seven hills. Here's what happened when I let Lisbon set the pace.
About
A journal for paying closer attention
Written from a small apartment in Portland, Oregon, and wherever the train goes next.
Nora Lindqvist
Writer & editor · Portland, Oregon
I write about the small, deliberate choices that make everyday life feel better: rooms with good light, meals worth slowing down for, and places best seen on foot.
Waldron started as a notebook. For years I kept lists of things that made ordinary days better: a chair that fit just right, a bakery worth crossing town for, the way late light hits a white wall. Eventually the lists wanted to be essays.
Today it's a small, independent journal published every other week. There are no sponsored posts and no affiliate links, just careful writing about design, travel, food, home, and the ideas that tie them together.
If something here makes you look twice at your own surroundings, it has done its job.
- First notebook entry
- 2019
- Countries on foot
- 24
- New essays
- Biweekly
Recent stories
The quiet power of white space
Empty space isn't wasted space. A short essay on why the parts of a design you leave alone matter as much as the parts you fill.
The case for a Sunday soup
One big pot, a few hours of low heat, and lunches sorted for the week. Why a weekly soup has become my favorite kitchen ritual.
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I'm always looking for places, objects, and rituals worth writing about.
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