Italian Style, Sketching, and Some More Thoughts about Slow Fashion

Consider this for Slow Fashion: This coat (which I shared my sketch of in this post) is over 50 years old. . . .  Ever since that conversation we had about Slow Fashion (or better…

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Nurse Nana Begs Your Patience, Offers Sketch. . .

 Blogging this week will be light. We’re babysitting a Nearly Two and his big sister, Almost Five, over at our son and daughter-in-law’s.  I’d imagined that while the kids were at daycare, I’d finish the…

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Five Things Friday

I’m about halfway through a post building on our earlier conversation about Slow Fashion, enjoying the process, pulling together a few links, trying out various perspectives, essaying a coherent argument — well, perhaps just a…

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What a Busy Retiree Wears. . . A Few Recent Examples. . .

 Life continues to be surprisingly busy in ways I was often told about but never quite comprehended before retirement (which was almost five years ago now). Of course, so much of this busy-ness results from…

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Presenting: A Meeting in Paris. . . Art, Serendipity, Social Media, and Friendship

Several posts ago, I mentioned preparing a presentation for my French class and, because the topic was something I’d wanted to share with you anyway, I promised to translate the presentation and post it here. …

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