Neutrals for Comfort

This is the best I can manage today — a recent outfit post, taken before I got hit by a serious cold. Much better than I was earlier in the week, I’m planning to get…

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Dusting off the Archives . . . Blast from the Past

Thanks for the thoughtful and thought-provoking comments in response to my last post. I’m not done with this topic (of responsible consumerism in all its complications) yet, and I hope to chat about it with…

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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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