Outfits for the Shorter Days. . . .Keeping Spirits Bright When the Skies Just Aren’t!

A few outfits I’ve worn in the last week or two, as we move closer to the Winter Solstice. . . we’ve had a week of icy temperatures and sunny skies and now if we’ve…

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Fashion Illustration? Presenting My New Jacket. . .

 Thought you might like to know about my new jacket, bought before I left for Edinburgh last month. It wasn’t all-purpose enough to justify bringing it along, so I was pleased to be reunited and…

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Random Abundance on a Monday. . . Travel Wardrobe, Portrait of a Celebrity, Stairwell Art. . .

OOTD Selfie taken on a train   I’m off to celebrate an ex-colleague’s retirement — my first time back to campus since I retired over three years ago now. I’m taking advantage of the jaunt over…

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Portraits of a Travel Experience, or There and Back Again . . .

Reader Eleonore, whom I’ve had the pleasure of spending a few hours with, once in Berlin, once in Munich, commented on my last post that she, too, keeps a journal while travelling. Like me, she…

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Journal Pages — Paris Purchases, Sketched near Rome. . .

Back home almost a week now, I’m beginning to sleep a bit better (5 1/2 hours in one stretch last night, the most continuous sleep in weeks), and I’m settling back into a very pleasant…

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