Carolina Herrera is one of my favorite designers. Not only am I crazy about her designs, but I love the fact that she keeps much of her manufacturing in the United States (Silver Lining). To top off my affinity, last spring, I had the great and fortunate opportunity to meet both Mrs. Herrera and one… Continue reading Style: The Herrera Life
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Life Lessons in Tennis
For the first time in my life, I have joined a tennis team. I haven’t played a team sport since…well, high school. While I’d like to believe that high school wasn’t long ago, reality begs to differ. Though I never played tennis, I was the only girl on the boys varsity soccer team…which means that I’m… Continue reading Life Lessons in Tennis
The ABC's of Silver Linings: K for Kindness – Thoreau
Big Questions from Little People and Simple Answers from Great Minds
Hope that you all have had a beautiful, ThankFULL weekend! I’ve been brimming over with ideas and topics about which to write, so get ready. Let me begin the week with the most divine feel-good book that recently came into my life: Questions from Little People and Simple Answers from Great Minds. In this book, Gemma… Continue reading Big Questions from Little People and Simple Answers from Great Minds
Silver Linings and Gratitude
During this Thanksgiving week, I’ve been thinking about how Silver Linings go hand-in-hand with gratitude. Both look for (and find!) the positive in life. It’s the Half-full vs. Half-empty mentality. I love looking for Silver Linings and then feeling the gratitude for finding them. My Silver Lining philosophy has taught me to not take things for granted. Quite… Continue reading Silver Linings and Gratitude
Alice's Bucket List
Recently, I came across the most amazing, most inspiring, most incredible blog, Alice’s Bucket List. Here’s how Alice describes herself: I’m 16 and I have terminal cancer. I’ve created a bucket list because there are so many things I still want to do in my life … some are possible, some will remain a dream.… Continue reading Alice's Bucket List
Bookworm: Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
When I was in graduate school, I was introduced to psychologist Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. Wow. It was perhaps one of the most important components of my graduate education. Why? Well, because it was transformative — in a stratospherically profound way, both personally as well as professionally. As… Continue reading Bookworm: Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Uncertainty
This week, I’m in New York embarking on something that is going to take a prodigious amount of courage. I am going down a new path filled with boatloads of uncertainty. GULP. Suffice it to say that I have a wee bit (ok, a whole lot!) of nerve bugs. Uncertainty is, I believe, the key word… Continue reading Uncertainty
Bookworm: Canada by Richard Ford
“First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.” Those are the first two sentences of Richard Ford’s new novel, Canada. Quite a whopper of an opener, right? I just read the book for my book club and boy oh boy, am I ever glad that I/we did!… Continue reading Bookworm: Canada by Richard Ford
Terrific Tufting
Tufting is one of my favorite furniture designs. The look is achieved when upholsterers thread through layers of fabric or leather, often in a pattern, and secure the ends of the thread with a knot or button. If I could tuft every piece of furniture in our home, I probably (definitely!) would! There is something… Continue reading Terrific Tufting