I was taking photos of some vintage items yesterday for a flash sale I have coming up in June and I noticed that things look completely different depending on how close-up you get.
If you zoom in too close, things will get blurry. If you zoom out too far, you lose all of the details.
But there’s a optimum distance for a picture that balances the best…
“For me, philanthropy and commerce are completely interconnected.”
– Donna Karan in Oprah’s Next Chapter
Tonight’s episode of Oprah’s Next Chapter profiles Donna Karan’s humanitarian work with local artists in the still-ravaged and struggling country of Haiti.
I greatly admire Donna Karan and how she exemplifies what I think of as fashion as a spiritual path.
Fashion? As a spiritual path?
Yes!
I believe that fashion, just like anything we love and…
I’m not the biggest fan of polka dots in fashion. For me personally, I tend to find them a bit, well, polka-dotty! And the older you get the harder it becomes to pull off this whimsical print.
But don’tcha just love a challenge?
Me, too!
So with a wee bit of internet surfing, I discovered today’s VPOD. This lovely summer dress mixes dotted swiss with a bold geometric…
When it comes to punctuation marks, exclamation points are definitely my favorite.
I mean, commas and periods don’t strike me as particularly special. They’re just utilitarian and necessary.
Semi-colons and colons often leave me befuddled.
And while I do deliberately use a lot of question marks (which definitely come in a strong second), I still hope that when the tally is taken upon my final breath that I…
One of the great pleasures of the New Year for me is cracking open a fresh journal and flipping through the blank pages while imagining the stories, adventures, and yes, even the potential trials and tribulations, that I’ll be committing to ink in the days ahead.
Before our digital age, the watch keeper on ships would keep a slate tablet near the helm on which he…
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