5. Pink and Green and Purple and Yellow

March 7, 2011

There’s been no time to crystallize deep thoughts, so here’s a silly list with lots of photos. Rose was curious about our pink and green bathroom. The above photo shows how it looked when we first saw the house staged for sale in 2005. The house dates to 1926. The former, quite elderly owners lived [...]

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32. Rememory and Creativity

February 25, 2011

This post will be a little bit of a mish mash. Apologies in advance. Last Sunday was my birthday, and I received lovely birthday emails, cards, facebook greetings and some nice presents, like these roses from my friend Rich in New York. I’ve known Rich for forty years, since I was thirteen years old. My [...]

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4. Paris, Style and Some Hail

February 16, 2011

In Spring 2005 I went to Paris for the first time, with my friend Anne. It was a unique opportunity for me, as Anne knows her way around the city and she speaks French fluently. At that point, I owned a single pair of pearl earrings, a gift from a dear friend sometime in the [...]

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3. Naked Style

February 9, 2011

In the The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake, there’s a reference to this photograph of Yves Saint Laurent taken by the French photographer Jeanloup Sieff, Paris, 1971.  It  was the centerpiece of an advertising campaign for Yves’ first men’s fragrance, but Martin and I don’t recall ever seeing it. Being born in 1958 put us [...]

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2. The Closet is Bare

February 3, 2011

In checking out Inside Out Style I learned that I have an H Shape which means it’s best to draw attention away from the waist, as does the dress above and this dress below. In cleaning out my closet today, an exhausting project, I realized I must have already known this thing about the H [...]

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1. Old Person Alert!

January 30, 2011

If this post doesn’t motivate me to lose weight, nothing will. I will try to refrain from speculating whether a certain person has or has not been whopped by the ugly stick. It was Terri’s idea that I post some photos of myself as I work on my 2011 goal of dressing better. The above [...]

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31. Cultural Incompetence

January 28, 2011

One of the stories in the excellent New York Times series Class Matters – Social Class in the United States of America is the story of Della Mae Justice, a woman who gave up a successful legal career at a Lexington, KY law firm to return home and practice law in Pike County, KY, an area in [...]

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30. The Real Gray Kitty

January 26, 2011

If you are familiar with The Adventures of Gray Kitty, the real Gray Kitty has a special announcement to make. His Mom and Dad are giving up App development. No more story Apps. It’s a long story, but in a nutshell, both of us would rather do other things with our spare time. Martin would [...]

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29. Calvin and Me

January 21, 2011

I’ve decided to stop trying to figure out other Americans. Instead I’m going to see if it’s possible to figure out who I am, as an American. To that end, as I readjust my slipping crown, it seemed like a good idea to investigate how being a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant with rural Midwestern maternal Scots [...]

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28. Reverse Snobbery

January 17, 2011

This post summarizes and challenges a bias against WASP elites –  especially those embracing a refined aesthetic — I’ve encountered in conversations with persons of the middle class and persons of privilege who prefer to think of themselves as middle class — over the last several months. I see this bias as a form of [...]

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