Further thoughts on Ukraine.
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Three meaningful traditions to start with your children (or the children in your life.)
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My friend Alice asked me if I’d written about jewelry yet, and I had to admit I hadn’t. She suggested I write about how to
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January goals for living a beautiful life.
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When my mother passed away, and we were going through her belongings, my husband found my mother’s copy of the book Living a Beautiful Life by Alexandra Stoddard.
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I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas if you celebrate! We had a lovely, peaceful day together–I feel so grateful for so many things this year, especially our health. Now that Christmas is over, my thoughts are turning to the new year, and how to begin new habits that will hopefully stick!
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When I was in college, I took a wonderful folklore class. Our long-term project was to write three papers on a piece of folklore that affected our lives, or that we felt particularly drawn to.
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We all have special places in our lives–schools, childhood homes, summer vacation spots, restaurants–and we all have different ways of remembering them. There are as many ways to do that as there are people. My mother, for instance, collected matchbooks.
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