Tracy K. Smith’s Ordinary Light, Extra-ordinary Poems

Regularly these days, if I’m reading while I’m out somewhere, no post-it notes or notebook handy when I come across a passage that I want to come back to later, I’ll snap a photo of…

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OOTD: Lunch with a Friend, Downtown

To meet a friend for lunch at Nordstrom earlier this week, I pulled this dress out of the closet. On some levels a coup de foudre when I found it in the Bordeaux & Other Stories storelast year,…

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Monday Miscellany

 Less than two weeks now until our trip, and perhaps not surprisingly, I’m feeling a bit scattered. Or not scattered so much as spread a bit thin. Looking at recent photos I’d thought to Instagram…

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Still Stock-Taking, This Last November Friday. . .

While many of you were busy travelling and gathering and cooking and baking and sitting around beautifully set tables being grateful — Happy Thanksgiving, Belated — I was swooping over to Vanc’r Island to catch…

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An Unlikely Road Trip: Sara Baume’s Literary Debut

I’d make my apologies for the lapse since last posting, but by now, this is what you’ve come to expect here. My mother used to insist that an apology was only as good as the…

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