Milestones
We sold our house today – closed on it and shook hands all around. It was a pleasant and simple transaction, with a delightful new buyer who promised to love the house and keep it well. It’s a special house,… Continue Reading
Life Philosophy
Beauty From Ashes
On one of our walks in New York City, around West 11th Street and Greenwich Ave., we passed a chain link fence hung with hand made tiles. The tiles are covered with messages and images of September 11th, many child-like… Continue Reading
My Biggest Mirror Challenge Is . . .
How would you finish this sentence: “When I look in the mirror, my biggest challenge is . . . ” Note I didn’t use self-negating words like “What I hate” or “what I have to change”. The “challenge” can be… Continue Reading
You Go, Little Sister!
What a hopeful and uplifting read in this morning’s New York Times: Fourteen year-old Julia Bluhm is unhappy about the Photoshopped images of young women in magazines, and is fighting back. Julia says, of her favorite magazine Seventeen, “I look… Continue Reading
What I Wore: New Boots, Cowboy Style
Body Image Warrior Week continues! Please check out these sites for essays and personal stories about loving our bodies, at all ages and sizes: Already Pretty The Beheld Decoding Dress Dress with Courage Eat the Damn Cake Fit and Feminist… Continue Reading
Body Image Warrier Week: Fit and Feminist
I’m honored today to participate in Body Image Warrior Week. This idea was born in Sally McGraw’s (Already Pretty blog) brain, to coincide with National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. The participants are bloggers who are passionate about uplifting women’s views… Continue Reading
Don’t Do What I Did Today
It’s a leisurely Saturday morning. I am sipping delicious 7-Eleven coffee and reading the NY Times online. My husband says, let’s take a quick look at the Estate Sale up the street. It’s at a charming little cottage that’s on… Continue Reading
How To Upgrade Your Wardrobe, If You Feel Like It
I do go through phases with my wardrobe — do you? I feel like I am just now coming to the end of a phase. This phase could be characterized by: let’s buy a lot of inexpensive (i.e., thrifted and… Continue Reading