Periwinkle Silk Goes Goddess-y Blouse

In my younger and more Miss Priss days I was prone to living vicariously through charismatic slightly-bad-boys. While age has dampened my attraction to males full of razzle and dazzle, I rather suddenly and mysteriously seem to be prone to desiring clothing with similar attributes. Should I blame biology for my increasingly flamboyant taste—or just [...]

A decades-long holiday love story, told in lights

For at least 26 winters and quite feasibly more than 40 of them, a small one-story house in a modest PNW neighborhood has transformed itself and its adjoining lot into something rather extraordinary: an homage to every archetypal creature and candy ever deemed part of an American Christmas. It’s a story of obsession overlapped with [...]

Song in the Key of Busby Blue Dress

While some are born with a crispy, linear personality and some acquire one, others are awed and/or bemused by the very thought of such a thing. I fall into that third category, and I fall into it hard. In fact I’m so far from starched that behind closed doors I’m often ensconced in some raggedy [...]

Fantastical

For the last few weeks I may as well have been trying to ice skate in a roller rink. Contemplating alternatives to my rather disturbing effort-to-momentum ratio led me to Edward de Bono, who says: It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by [...]