A travel dress for women is a challenging purchase. It’s not something you’d forget, but it might be hard to find in your closet. The normal problems of packing, such as you’re going hiking and you didn’t bring hiking boots, swimming and you forgot a swimsuit, are behind us I hope. I remember one time
You want to know what color does the mother of the groom wear? Like my answer to what color shoes to wear with a black dress, these days, any color will do. But if you want a more “correct” answer, I can give you that as well. Generally the mother of the groom’s dress should
I woke up from a nap on my chaise lounge during an uneventful day off which included reading parts of books by such luminaries as Joan Didion, Steven Kotler, Allissa Wilkinson. I opened my eyes and looked out the plate glass window into the garden. Then I realized, with a strange reflective focus, that my
Yoga with goats? How does that make sense? I went to goat yoga this week because I’d always wanted to. And I can explain, it just takes a minute…. First of all, let’s remember that the word “yoga” means “linkage” between mind and body, two things that don’t always go together. The linking of goats
Do women still wear pantyhose? In short, yes, but not as often as they used to. If you are wondering about this question, most likely you were raised in that era in which it was believed just about indecent to go out without pantyhose. If a woman was wearing a skirt, and no hose, she
First of all, for our planned climb, here are basic stats on the Mt. Fuji Yoshida trail from the 5th station. Elevation gain: 5,200 feet. Trail length: 11.5 miles, with the first four miles encompassing the entire elevation gain and the last 7 and a half being downhill. The idea came from my daughter who’s
“Believe me, you never know the best about men till you know the worst about them.” — Horne Fisher, the sleuth of The Man Who Knew Too Much These are mystery stories, eight of them, deeply immersed in the world of Edwardian England. The stories are atmospheric. They present between the lines a picture
To begin with: all right, I admit it. I was turning 60. This is not something you like to talk about. After all, this trigger for this discouragement, this turning 60, it’s pretty unchangeable. Never mind all that talk about age is just a number. Age may be just a number but it is a
My copy of How To Stop Worrying and Start Living is quite old now. The printing date is 1984. I can’t remember who gave it to me or if I bought it myself. But when you look at the outlined pages of my copy one thing is clear. As a young woman, I went through
It’s only been a couple of years now since I passed beyond the idea that growing a profitable garden was simple. I was that person who, when it starts to get warm in the spring, would go out and dig up the garden bed with a shovel and then put some seeds in there and
