Today, the first day back to school, I defiantly pulled on my white jeans — gasp! post-Labour-Day white — and quickly found a good reason for the rule. Dirt roads + rain + bicycle =…
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Only one chapter into Donna Leon’s About Face, and already I’d found two sentences worth remarking First, for the brilliantly sly balancing of its second (post-semi-colon) independent clause: “He recognized the Conte’s lawyer and his…
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As I ready myself for Summer’s freer schedule being swapped out for Fall’s more rigorous pace, what I’m really lamenting — besides not having picked a single bowl of blackberries this year! — is how…
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LittleGirl heads home this morning, and I’ll miss having her here. The long earnest chats about who said what to whom — whether in that afternoon’s sailing camp or in some movie I’m getting a…
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First of all, thanks for the great suggestions about ways to wear my new J. Crew slim joggersand/or your thoughts about this style in general. As you’ll note from the photo-bombing (below), my time for…
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