And third thoughts, with your help

When I finally tried to articulate, the other day, some misgivingsI’ve increasingly been having when I occasionally write about fashion/style, I had even more misgivings about putting these thoughts into black marks on a page.…

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Second Thoughts about Style

When I first began, tentatively, to write here about what I wore (starting with shoes, a safe place for me), I was pleased to find a community in which chatting about contemporary fashion and personal…

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Nicci French’s Until It’s Over

Good ferry reading I just finished: Nicci French’s Until It’s Over. I’ve always enjoyed this writing pair’s mysteries (Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of married journalists, Nicci Gerrard and Sean French),…

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petite anglaise, the book

Finished reading Catherine Sanderson’s Petite Anglaise and found it an enjoyable, well-written, light book, a “creative-non-fiction”/memoir that reads almost as a novel. My escape fiction/formula fiction of choice is generally the well-written mystery novel; as…

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Eating sardines in Lisbon — mmmmm!

I still have one last post to write on eating in Paris, but since my focus has been on Portugal and Lisbon over recent posts, I thought you might like to see what we loved…

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