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My Favorite Holiday
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Except for cooking and entertaining, it asks nothing of us except to love one another. I could list here all the things I am grateful for but it would…
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A Woman’s Christmas
Victoria Magazine’s A Woman’s Christmas is a lovely book that feeds the feminine soul at Christmas. With the annual hustle and bustle, noise and confusion, A Woman’s Christmas is an oasis in a sea…
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Carrying Her Heart Away
During the war, it was considered un-Patriotic for a Homefront Honey not to care about her appearance. Even Rosie the Riveter wore lipstick while she riveted. Many of the red lipsticks at the…
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Christmas Assembly
In the 1960’s, every public elementary school in my town held a Christmas assembly each year on the last school day before the holiday vacation. These programs took place in the…
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Why don’t you…..wear a tartan skirt?
The inimitable Diana Vreeland included a column called “Why don’t you….?” in Harpers Bazaar when she was at the magazine’s helm. Her little suggestions were at times audacious as in, “Why don’t you…
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Dress Code
Tonight is Christmas Eve and even though I have a small house with limited seating, my annual party has a dress code. I don’t expect ball gowns and tuxedos but I do expect…
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When Christmas Happens
I never know the exact moment when Christmas happens for me. It could be the day I trim the tree, the afternoon I settle in with Victoria’s A Woman’s Christmas, or the private…
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Christmas Beauty
What makes a Christmas Beauty? That’s what my 1942 Woman’s Home Companion asks me each year. A favorite Christmas Beauty has always been Anne Hilton, played by the lovely Claudette Colbert, in the…
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Waiting for Christmas
For many years I have said that my mother was Christmas to me. The wonderful things she did for us during the holiday season, the way she decorated our house with abandon, the…
