Welcome to The Edit—a collection of personal essays, observations, and photography about life as it is: beautiful, complicated, funny, occasionally messy, and always changing.

Each entry is an Edit, a closer look at something worth noticing. Friendship and family. Travel and home. Growing older and knowing ourselves better. The things we carry, the things we let go, and the small pleasures that make an ordinary day feel like something more.

Some Edits ask questions. Some tell stories. Others simply stop long enough to notice something I don't want to forget.

These stories may begin with me, but so much of what we feel, question, carry, and celebrate is shared. I hope you'll find something here that speaks to you, too.

THE EDIT

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Edit 56: Ten Things—June

Ten things the month of June gave to our family, and my gratitude for each and every one.

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Edit 39: Ten Things—April

April has been a whirlwind—a beautiful, exhausting, electric, deeply good whirlwind. But before May sweeps in and takes over, here are ten things I don't want to forget.

Elizabeth Quon 4/12/26 Elizabeth Quon 4/12/26

Edit 36:Twenty-Six

Twenty-six trips around the sun—and somehow, with every single one, she's only become more wonderfully, unmistakably herself. This Edit is for Madeline, on her birthday.

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Edit 29: Ten Things

Life has been a lot lately—the beautiful, overwhelming, blink-and-you'll-miss-it kind of a lot. So before March gets away from me entirely, I'm doing what any reasonable person does when the calendar is full and the heart is fuller: I'm making a list.

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Edit 19: Note To Self

Note to self: late January is a reminder that the in-between isn’t a waiting room—it’s where life is being edited