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A Day in November
Like Christmas, one of my favorite days of the year comes but once in twelve months. Yesterday was the day I made my annual trek to my favorite Boston book fair. This exhibit…
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The Warner House
I dragged three unwitting participants with me to the Warner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire yesterday. My goal was to see a bedspread. Long on my unofficial bucket list was to view the Betsy…
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Flights of Fancy
Have you been stopped at a red light in a November dusk and watched the eerie dance of the starlings? They fly en masse from wire to wire with the precise unison of synchronized swimmers. …
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Paperdoll Worlds
I loved paperdolls as a child. I thought they were the most precious things. My mother tore out Betsy McCall’s page from her monthly McCall’s magazine for me and I spent many afternoons…
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Exposed Lingerie and Dance & Fashion
I visited the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City for two wonderful exhibits last week. Exposed A History of Lingerie traced intimate apparel from the eighteenth century to the present. It was a…
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Pursuits
I’ve simplified my home filing system at last. The floral letter basket on my desk only holds a few folders now: Ideas for Blogging, Ideas for Content Writing, Money Articles, Spirituality, Literary Notes, and my…
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Football Love
That possibly innocent observation by Henry had an instant and cruel effect on Lavinia: it took her back vividly to Soldiers’ Field at Harvard. Oh! twenty years ago or more. She had to close her…
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Fatherly Advice
Poetry sometimes throws light into the darker corners of existence. It offers truths that are based on intuition, keen eyes, and soulful experiences. Just like good advice. Some days when my thoughts have no…
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Back-to-School Style.
Here’s the great sixties model Colleen Corby in a classic back-to-school outfit from the pages of Seventeen. My allegoric new year always starts September 1st, a left-over feeling from my own school days. Mom took…
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Insomnolence
“I can get to sleep but I cannot stay asleep”, I told my doctor last spring. We talked about all the reasons why sleep is so important. But I already knew. And I still…
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Secret Worlds
I’ve always admired the work of photographer Lillian Bassman. The women depicted in her ethereal photographs seem to be inspired by Old Masters’ paintings but with the forms of modern dancers. I especially enjoy…
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On Holiday
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” — Virginia Woolf Never is this quote more apt than when on vacation. The long…
