I watched all of Project Runway: Season Two to help me get out of my slump. In the second challenge, Emmett’s struggling to come up with a design when Nick tells him “Stop thinking. Just start cutting.” So that’s what I did, too. I sketched “nonsense” until I came up with something. And that something […]
I found these old photos in a free box on the sidewalk. The same man is in all the photos, but one looks to have been taken in the Forties (judging from the woman’s hair and dress) and the others some time in the Fifties. The earlier photo is of the man and a woman
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Back in the Eighties, my dad worked for JVC and was sent to Tokyo for management training. One of the items he brought back was a gorgeous, navy blue, Hanae Mori scarf, which was given to him for my mom by one of his Japanese colleagues. My mom explained that Hanae Mori was one of
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I’m having one of THOSE weeks. You know – the ones where you’re tired and fried for no reason, where nothing seems to work. In my case, it could be due to any number of things – postponing a trip to LA, a soon-to-be new job, the long weekend and subsequent short “work” week. Weeks