A Few Things I've Been Thinking About
For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice.
~T.S. Eliot
Each December, I choose a word to guide the year ahead. Not a resolution, not a task list, not another impossible standard—just a word that steadies me, stretches me, and reminds me of w...
Clothes aren’t going to change the world. The women who wear them will.
—Anne Klein
Not everything we wear shows up in the mirror. Some of the heaviest things we carry never even hang in our closet. Over the years I’ve learned that style isn’t just about what you put on, it’s also about ...
Tonight, I cleaned my silverware.
It has been sitting quietly in a drawer for years—not because it didn’t matter, but perhaps because it mattered too much. As I polished each piece, I realized I wasn’t really cleaning silver at all. I was touching memory. Love. History.
My great aunt Mitzi live...
The holidays ask a lot of us.
Not just our time or our energy, but our hearts.
We give and give and give — our attention, our kindness, our thoughtfulness, our effort — often without stopping to ask what we might need in return.
And somewhere in between the wrapping, the cooking, the remembering-ever...
A new year doesn't need resolutions - just rituals that remind you hope is always on the table.
-Helene Oseen
As we turn the corner from one year to the next, many of us feel that quiet mixture of reflection and anticipation. The world slows down for a moment. The calendar resets. And suddenly, t...
Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves,
and of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys,
they’d just always walk around naked.
—Betsy Johnson
My granddaughter Zoë, just two and recently potty trained, started to hop around at the mall as if she was dancing on a bed of ...
