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Today’s Object of Desire
Gorgeousness and photo courtesy of Temple St Clair. As any shopper knows, one of the really appalling things about Christmas is that you spend so much time looking around for things for your nearest...
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Standing in the Flames
It pressed on Michael from the moment he walked in the gallery door. The last exhibition of Itu experiential art, and it was packed, but the crush of humanity was hardly more than a thread against the...
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Christmas Cookies, Fort Worth Style
The time has come for this month’s Let’s Lunch! This month’s theme is celebrations around the world, and boy, there were a lot of places I could have gone with this. When you grow up in a...
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Last Minute Gift Inspiration: The Guy Edition
Shark Tooth Print iPhone Case from Paul Smith ($125). Pretty badass, no? Still shopping for Christmas presents? (Aren’t we all?) Christmas has somehow slipped up on us horrifyingly quickly this...
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Trifecta: Honeymoon
The door slammed. Tassin came out of the back room, a startled look on his face. “What was that?” “Another entry for the list of people who are not happy for us.” The alarm dropped away and he ambled...
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May I Have Your Attention
Dear Lovers of Ugg Boots, Please don’t bring that s*** here. If you have not noticed it already, permit me to clarify: I am not an Ugg boot kind of girl. I fundamentally Do Not Get the purpose of a...
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Orthography
Cy looked down at his pay slip and contemplated the latest misspelling of his name. Seinen. It had, in past weeks, been Sinan, Sainnen, and in a bizarre creative flight that he still had trouble...
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Merry Christmas.
I hope that wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, whether you’re celebrating today or just kicking back with some Chinese food, your day is a great one. Peace, joy, and all the best to all of you.
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Trifecta: The Arrival
When it came, she knew how she should be. Glassy-eyed with wonder. Struck silent with reverence. Staggered by the magnitude of the change. She wasn’t. When it finally came, it was after years of...
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Writing Resolutions for 2013
Good morning, dear friends! I come to you from a comfortable post-holiday, pre-Champagne cocoon of lethargy, and hope that you too are either happily ensconced or at least not being made to do actual...
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Holiday Wrap-Up
Welcome back to regular life! I hope you’ve all more or less recovered from the sugar highs and hangovers, and your stomachs/livers/siblings are prepared to forgive you for the holidays excesses. If,...
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Brown Butter Creamed Greens (Let’s Lunch!)
It’s time for this month’s Let’s Lunch, and, amazingly, I decided not to bake for January’s new beginnings theme. (I swear, I do not live entirely on cookies and cakes. No, really.) My life...
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The Quantum Thief (This Week’s Review)
Consistent with my slow start on all things new this month, today I’m bringing you the year’s first book review. This week we are for the sci-fi with Hannu Rajaniemi’s The Quantum Thief. This...
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Trifecta: The Frog Prince
The frog contemplated the golden ball. It glittered through the murky water, half-buried in the black silt of the pond’s bottom. He could hear the princess crying above, her voice weirdly distorted...
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Fraternity
“You did that?” Cy looked dubiously at a length of fabric so sheer that he could almost see through it and then at the sister who was holding it. She was twelve. “Don’t touch it!” Make that twelve...
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Today’s Object of Desire
Alexander Wang’s Emma in vine, via Nordstrom. We have not had any good eye candy around this joint in quite a while, so permit me to bring you my current shoe lust, Alexander Wang’s ankle-strapped Emma...
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The Fashionista in Winter
It’s nine degrees out right now. Yeah, nine. And as I contemplate today’s anticipated high of (whee!) 17 degrees, I am moved to reflections on the nature of fashion and fashion blogs. My reflection...
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The Inquisition
The servant quietly closed the door behind her, leaving behind a motionless tableau: the Emperor’s first wife, Lady Cahlila, and three teenaged girls standing before her in a line. Raicha tried not to...
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Trifecta: First Blood
“Hang in there, Dane. We’ll be there soon.” There was no more response than the last three times. Cy told himself it was probably a good thing that Dane had passed out. Easier that way. Cy winced...
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The Tower
This, she thought with a wince, might really be the worst of the things she had to hold against her parents about this whole process. She experimentally took a hand away from one ear just in time to...
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