There’s a great scene in the film Desk Set when Katherine Hepburn invites Spencer Tracy into her female lair to escape a damaging rainstorm. It’s Christmastime and in her bedroom (where she hands…

I wouldn’t be surprised if this image was from a Christmas card in the 1960’s or 70’s. The sweet long-haired girl in her red and hot-pink ensemble reminds me so much of “my…

I read The Twelve Days of Christmas to my three grandchildren over the phone this morning. It’s something that I do periodically. Their attention petered out at six geese a-laying. While they grappled…

This pretty little Christmas room has all the yuletide feels I crave. And Lord knows, I’ve tried to recreate it in my small living room over the years. The problem is I’m not…

My crush sophomore year of high school had dark square glasses and always seemed to be wearing a sky-blue Shetland sweater. To this day, I can’t think of him without remembering that expanse…

The other day I had an episode of déjà vu so intense and prolonged that I thought I was going to step into another realm. At the time, I was sleep-deprived and the…

“Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?” ~ Allen Ginsberg ~ Are you also feeling the pull of fall? The cool evenings, the quilt back on my bed…cold feet.…

This looks like a new photo but it’s over 60 years old, preserved on a Krodachrome slide. These are my grandparents, Harold and Anne Macdonald (with my older brother, my sister and I…

Today is National Lipstick Day and I note it especially because I just found out my two very favorite lipsticks have been discontinued. Lisa Eldridge’s Rainbow Spill was a hot coral that was…

Friends, I’ve been fighting summer…for many reasons. The heat is bothering me greatly (and my doctor told me the other day it may be because of a medicine I take). But it’s more…

My heart softens when Deborah Kerr in The King and I sings, “Hello Young Lovers” to a group of younger royal wives in the King of Siam’s court. She shares a photograph of…

Every summer, I pay a visit to one of my favorite books, Beauty from a Country Garden. It’s a slim tome with colorful and captivating illustrations by Catherine Kanner. The text, as well,…