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Perfume Imprints
When I was expecting my daughter and for a time after she was born, I wore Coco by Chanel. I had a beautiful lacquer-black refillable eau de parfum that looked so glamorous on…
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On the Sixth Day of a Feminine Christmas
This adorable little babe reminds me of my daughter – her coloring, the rosebud lips, the tenderness… This Christmas, my feelings of endearment know no bounds because in the New Year, I will…
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Paradise
“I can’t stop thinking about Hawaii”, I told my son-in-law a month ago. “Oh you’ll be thinking about it a lot more when you come back”, he warned… I’ve been missing a special…
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The Color Inside My World
Yesterday the color was snow. White and pristine, missing at Christmas but present for my daughter’s birthday on Epiphany, another holy day. We took the train to Boston along with my sister in…
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Summer Skies and Lullabies
As we await the delivery of wedding photographs, we are reminiscing about our happy day. Sunday morning dawned with smokey fog but by noon, the skies peeled back to reveal a lovely Wedgewood…
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The Lovely Long Ago
As pretty as it is, this illustration instantly brought stinging tears to my eyes. My daughter used to meet me at the door every night, our cat Buddy in her arms. And surely…
