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A Returning Traveler’s Miscellany. . . Art and What I Wore, There and At Home

A Returning Traveler’s Miscellany. . . Art and What I Wore, There and At Home

A few more photos from that Women House exhibition I saw in Paris week before last —  these top two, of smaller sculptures by Louise Bourgeois, exploring the relationship between woman and house, women and…

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Time to Zip It! My Travel Case, That Is: One Carry-On, Five Weeks in Europe

Time to Zip It! My Travel Case, That Is: One Carry-On, Five Weeks in Europe

 I’ll be heading to the airport in a few hours, so it’s time to show/tell you what I’ve packed before I zip the bags closed. I’ll be away for five weeks: three weeks and a…

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OOTD (When The Jeans Are All Packed For Travel)

OOTD (When The Jeans Are All Packed For Travel)

Just one more day now . . . I’m guessing I’m not the only one who experiences anxiety the day before a flight.  Luckily, it’s the transition time, the anticipation, that I find a bit…

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OOTD: Lunch with a Friend, Downtown

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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What I Wore for a Thought-Provoking Date Night

What I Wore for a Thought-Provoking Date Night

 Last Friday, we walked a couple of kilometres to the cinema for a showing of Ai WeiWei’s magnificent documentary, Human Flow. Have any of you watched it yet? Devastating and beautiful and humbling and inspiring…

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