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Books for August
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer…like the highest seat of a ferris wheel where it pauses just before it turns. ~Tuck Everlasting And here we are at…
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Summer’s Final Bow
My town has the most charming ice cream shop. It’s painted in sherbet colors and has a rick-rack of gingerbread trim. I don’t indulge every day but enough to know the owners who…
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On A Picnic Morning
Some of us remember a time when lowly wooden picnic tables dotted our country roads and highways. Today my town has one table in a small grove of trees off our central road.…
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Summer Style Note – Wringing Summer Dry
As I drove home from work the other day, I noticed that one lone tree in the center of town has a smidgen of red on its top. Instead of making me…
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Summer Style Note – Beach Cover-Ups
Living in a coastal town that becomes resort-like each summer, means that the beach cover-up is a standard wardrobe staple. There are shops that carry nothing but clothing to wear over a swim…
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Summer Style Note – Dresses
Summer sun dresses were staples in my wardrobe as a child. Many were made by my grandmother who was a skilled seamstress. Rick-rack, daisy chain trims, pretty buttons, and deep hems were some…
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Summer Style Note – Straw Handbags
Every mother who dropped her child off at our town’s lake for morning swim lessons had a straw or rattan handbag balancing on the passenger seat of the family station wagon. Even…
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Baby Don’t Go
A strange phenomenon occurs when the summer is just about to depart. Like an expectant mother who, although weighted and unwieldy, suddenly throws herself into frenetic nesting, I try to fit in every…
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Warm Weather DressingMy favorite summer ensemble may feel a bit pajama-like but certainly doesn’t look so. By layering my favorite linen wide-legs, with a camisole top under a floaty cardigan, I can have…
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Early Summer Beauty Summer beauty can be a challenge. The hot weather along with summer’s monkeywrench, humidity, can make one’s hair limp and unmanageable. However, the worse thing that Uncle Humidity does to…
