Just in case you’re a last minute shopper, as I am most years, I offer a few suggestions. 1. Naracamicie has opened an online store. Finally. I like this white eyelet blouse, for someone headed to a warm climate. Or this one in burgundy, for an only slightly ironic Christmas Eve. I haven’t checked if [...]
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Good morning. Do you have your coffee? Tea? Wonderful. Today I invite you to join me chez Tish, she who writes the wonderful blog, A Femme d’Un Certain Age. I have a guest post there, the Privilege[d] Gift Guide, in which we discuss luxury, both imagined and real. It’s a list of what we might [...]
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I hope everyone, celebrating or not, had a wonderful time yesterday. Let me now review time-honored principles of wonderfulness on Christmas, and other family gatherings. 1. Cook good food. In our case, roast chickens stuffed with lemons and rosemary, (or apples and onions), a rib-eye roast of grass-fed beef with Bearnaise sauce, sauteed kale with [...]
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From my Finger Paint iPhone app. With a little Photoshop. Because it’s never too late to learn something new. Very, very, very best wishes to all. Share on Facebook Tweet!
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High WASPs are, as my mother would say, big pills about Christmas trees. About all Christmas decorations, actually. No matter how evolved we fancy ourselves, come Christmas, we revert. We don’t believe Christmas decorations are decor. They are symbols. They are family. As such, to be revered, experienced for meaning, and rarely changed. Everything has [...]
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Presents. We like to call them presents. Do High WASPs give a certain kind of Christmas present? Is everything monogrammed, crystal, silver, or very, very old? Featuring horses? Greyhounds? Plaid? Luckily, no. Mostly, like everyone, we want to give our friends and family things they might like to have. We ask each other, before Christmas, [...]
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