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Summer of ’42
A band of hot days came in long succession, Italian ones with low thick air. I had a rare free day with my daughter and we decided to visit an outlet store in Massachusetts…
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Memory’s Muse
Can you forgive one more perfume post? Fragrance is on my mind these days because of a newspaper gig I have where I get to write about perfume a lot. Attached at the bottom…
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Sisters
I met Miss Mary Sears last Sunday at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She becharmed me so much that I have been googling her as well as the painter of her…
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The Scents We Left Behind
Does anybody remember the perfume Charlie? I baptized myself with it in college. I loved the ads with the leggy future Charlie’s Angel, Shelley Hatch, strutting her stuff. Somehow I felt if I…
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Vicky
When my daughter was a small child, I gave her a book called The Little While Friends, about pals that she would meet and enjoy briefly but never see again. I was thinking of…
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Some Enchanted Evening
Unexpectedly, life will turn a corner and it’s abruptly sadder and not as much fun, at least for a while. The phone that rang with good news of babies being born, new houses…
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The Girl I Used to Be
I saw my younger self today…while I was shoe shopping. I gasped inwardly and stopped dead in my tracks for a moment. It wasn’t just the long straight brown hair with the center…
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Spring Dance
For spring, Valentino has done some gorgeous party dresses. There’s a navy chiffon short number with embroidered flowers and a full skirt, some beautiful fitted lace sheaths in exquisite colors. Sweet feminine fluff…
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Paris in Love
I read a short story once about a lonely pioneer wife whose husband went to greet a wagon he heard traveling in the distance of their homestead. The couple had been living alone…
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On the Nightstand
My nightstand is covered with good books because I want choices for my just-before-bed reading. Sometimes that time is a mere few minutes and I want the last things that fill my head…
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Life Wins
Don’t hate me but I don’t like spring. I am an autumn girl – I love the tension of blue sky and falling leaves, sunshine coupled with crisp air. Truth be told, something…
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Love and West Side Story
My flu shot didn’t work this year and so I’ve been sick abed in the Land of Counterpane for days on end. After I read the last two Vogues, more of Molly Peacock’s…
