I’m going to pretend that these fine ladies are good friends despite the slightly secretive look on the face of the woman on the left.  I love the colors in this illustration and the…

Carole Lombard certainly knows how to look festive along with her pretty Christmas gifts.  I used to think it was my mission to spend as much as I possibly could on each of…

Merry Christmas readers! This is an illustration of a sweet brother and sister gathering greens for the holiday.  Sibling love was a piquant element of artist Tasha Tudor’s gentle Christmas artwork and missing…

Last weekend a good friend, her daughter-in-law and her granddaughter, and I had a watch party of the “Fireside Nutcracker” which was an abridged performance of the Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet, The Nutcracker. I…

Abandon all notions of what traditional Christmas present wrappings should be!  Take your queue from Bette Davis whose packages are tied up in bright colors with shiny papers, the very antithesis of brown…

Christmas carols have a heavenly quality with magical melodies especially when sung by a choir of adults or children.  But I worry that many of the songs and lyrics will be forgotten one…

Another image that is not specifically Christmas but holiday-like nonetheless.  It is “Juliet”, daughter of Richard H. Fox and that is the name of the painting by Alfred Lambart.  Someday, I may follow…

Although not necessarily a Christmas photograph of Twiggy, I thought it was festive enough to kick off off the Feminine Christmas series. The year 2020 has been many things, the least of which…

I always imagined myself as an “over the river and through the woods” type of grandmother, just like the grandmothers I had.  Each had their own special house of curiosities for delighting young…

Once, when I was walking three miles every morning, it suddenly felt as though I were gliding on roller skates.  My steps were evenly timed, constant and quick and my three mile trek…

The Chanel perfume ads from the late 50’s through 70’s charmingly evoke a feminine loveliness that has been unmatched.  Usually each ad shows a couple or a single woman thinking outloud about a…

In the village store someone says, “I heard the geese go over,” and there is a moment of silence. Why this is so moving, I do not know… But all of us feel…