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Lemons into Limoncello
Many of you have written to me to ask about the book recommendation I gave one of my commenters. I love comments and I know it is difficult to leave them and so…
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Lessons from Anne
Did you read Anne of Green Gables as a girl? Or did you make her acquaintance viewing the wonderful Sullivan Productions film on PBS in 1985? I’ve read all the “Anne” books which…
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The Clothes of Our Lives
I visited with my old Jr. High School teachers, Mrs. Butler and Mrs. Bleiweiss the other day. Metaphorically speaking. A friend and I drove to Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut for a charming…
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Country Cousin
If you were a girl who grew up in the late 60’s and your school had a good library, chances are you read a Betty Cavanna. Ms. Cavanna wrote charming little stories for…
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Friday Night Lights
As a girl, my summers were filled with Cape Cod sunshine. But only one summer has a golden halo around it that still glows. Even today, when I hear the very year mentioned, my heart…
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Ooh La La!
I read every book I can find about the elusive Frenchwoman. She’s so serene, so lovely, so scarf adept. Jamie Cat Callan’s latest book, Ooh La La!, French Women’s Secrets to Feeling Beautiful…
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The Light in the Piazza
When Nightly News’ Brian Williams was interviewing the women amputees who were so terribly hurt in the Boston Marathon bombings, he asked if any of them were finding comfort by curling up with good…
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Memorial Day
A few years ago, I took my daughter to Arlington National Cemetery. Just outside the gate, our guide told us we were not to laugh or talk loudly. She said she only wanted…
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Book of Model Beauty
Aren’t these line drawings adorable? They are from “Eileen Ford’s Book of Model Beauty”. My friend Kay introduced me to the book when she brought it to my house and I borrowed it…
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Heaven Sent
I love this vintage ad for Helena Rubenstein’s Heaven Sent perfume. It ran in Seventeen for years. The sweet and now quaint copy is ostensibly the words of the fetching model, telling us…
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Prom
All little girls dream of being brides one day, but when I saw the pink meringue confection that my mother wore to my father’s senior prom hanging in the attic, I unabashedly longed…
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The Comfort of Perfume
The Boston attacks came close to home. I worked in the Back Bay for many years – it was my daily turf. The older perp’s wife lives in my current town, and the…
