Picture this: It's morning, you've showered and dressed, about to start your day when you realize that only one step remains: make-up. How do feel about this womanly ritual? Is it art? Is it a part of your personal style? Or is it, as so many of us sometimes believe,...
Do you dress to impress? Or do you dress to express? Perhaps both. I love expressing my creativity through fashion, so when I found Mary Brooks Picken's words on individual style, I was intrigued by her timeless philosophy. In two different books, Harmony in...
Ahhh! the joy that is felt on the first swing of summer on our hammock - a liberating feeling knowing that in the days and weeks ahead the hammock will be there for a peaceful spiritual escape. I look up at the trees, leaves and blue sky take a long, deep breath -this...
Show of hands! Who here has felt a little less-than-feminine when temperatures soar to sweltering triple digits? I love summer as much as the next person, but we ladies know it's tough to feel our freshest during bedraggling doses of heat and humidity. I adore the...
I have yet to talk to a woman who enjoys shopping for a swimsuit it's about as fun as getting a flu shot or shopping for tires. I always avoid until late June this most humbling and painful fashion experience, picking over the sale suits, attempting to find the suit...
Sometimes the littlest ones in our lives provide the biggest inspiration. Several mothers I know never touched a needle and thread before their wee ones came along. While these women nurtured their newborns, they discovered an eager creative spirit within. Many new...
In that sublime season after the kids are out of school and before the full heat of summer descends, life seems to move in one direction outdoors. More than just a change of environment, this is a time to savor the pleasures of life: relationships with family and...
Saturday night I saw Janelle Monae in concert..an amazing experience! She did an incredible performance of "Smile" (wish I would have taped it with my iphone but I was entranced), a song that originally appeared in the 1936 movie Modern Times, music by Charlie...
For the past six months, since my book, Vintage Notions, was released, I have been on the road, on the blogs and on the pages of anyone who'll listen telling everyone how much Mary Brooks Picken means to me...and why I think she should mean more to everyone. And I...
New York is a city with surprises and history around every corner. On a recent trip, my husband booked us into the Marriott at 49th and Lexington. Upon arrival, I was excited to find out the building had once been the home of Georgia...
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