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My Yellow House
I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after…they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water and altered the color of my mind.” ~ Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights…
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On Towels…
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers…~William Wordsworth A friend came to visit last weekend and loved my blue beach towels. They…
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Soda Fountain Stories
He is clearly smitten with her as she sips from his soda glass. I love her tartan dress which I imagine to be blue and I’ll bet the bow wrapped around her ponytail…
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Spring Charms
I used to think my modest house took on its beauty only by candlelight. But that was before I had a new front door installed with a half-moon transom built into the top.…
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A Crystalline January
“Your holiday guests have departed and the house at last, is still. A piano sonata is gently tinkling from the stereo and the fragrance of flowers fills the air. A fire simmers in…
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A Sister’s New Year
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language; And next year’s words await another voice; And to make an end is to make a beginning… T.S. Eliot ~ The new year beckoned…
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On the First Day of a Feminine Christmas
This year my Christmas is being brought to me by Seventeen Magazine, or more specifically, the now-vintage Seventeens of my youth. There is a certain breathless charm about the December issues that are…
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I Capture the Castle
The title of this post is from the marvelous book by Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle. The story is dreamy and funny and shimmers like a crystal bowl in a shaft of…
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At Home with Madam Chic
This is the perfect picture for Mother’s Day. And it charmingly touches upon my infatuation with ballet as Mother is wearing toe shoes. I assume the silky pink footwear illustrates that she is executing arabesques in…
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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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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…
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Refined Living
This Tasha Tudor illustration is from Amy’s Goose, a sweet book by Tasha’s daughter, Efner Tudor Holmes. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that it changed my life. When my child…
