Resisting the Siren Call of Spring Sales: What I Wore

 When I first began ordering clothes online, I worried about having to divulge my email address. Sure enough, those daily enticement that pinged their way into my mornings had an effect for a few months.…

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Five Things Friday — Nana-and-Nola-style

As I might have mentioned, we have our 6-year-old granddaughter staying with us this week. She’s lovely, very easy to get along with, polite, cooperative, funny, happy with a trip to get groceries or a…

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Dressing for the Dance. . . for Watching it, that is. . .

 Zig-zagging back and forth from Vancouver this week — back on the island yesterday so that I could go to a performance by Compagnie Marie Chouinard. I wouldn’t have gone if a friend hadn’t asked…

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Sartorial Inspiration and its Down-to-Earth (Thud!) Translation. . .

Last week, Duchesse over at Passage des Perles blogged about this photo recently posted on Scott Schumann’s Sartorialist. Duchesse parsed the look to explain ways that we might get fresh looks from our wardrobe. She…

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Cozy Inspiration — Angora Cables. . . .

Running into a prolonged dearth of blog-writing time, I’m slower to click the “Delete” button on Drafts I’ve abandoned earlier.  This one, for example, which you’ll notice I began writing long enough ago that our…

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