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October 19, 2025
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The Magpie Diary: Oct. 19, 2025.

Motherhood

The Magpie Diary: thoughts on crafting "lists of attainments" for your year, for your age, for your family.

About Jen Shoop

Meet The Author
October 18, 2025
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Jen’s Weekend Drafts: A Great Peloton Spin + Being Wildly Unchill.

Musings + Essays
October 17, 2025
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What I Loved Wearing This Week: Oct. 17, 2025.

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October 17, 2025
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Take the Trip —

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October 16, 2025
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Magpie x Riley Sheehey Motherhood Prints!

Motherhood
October 16, 2025
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Let Down the Guard Petals —

Essays
October 15, 2025
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Styling Scarves for Fall.

Fashion Trends
October 15, 2025
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Which Books Changed Your Life?

Book Club
October 14, 2025
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Peak Fall Feelings.

Fashion Trends
October 14, 2025
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What Are Your Favorite Book-Based Movies?

Musings + Essays
October 13, 2025
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Fall Skin + Body Care Favorites.

Beauty
October 13, 2025
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Field Notes for a Good Life —

Musings + Essays
October 12, 2025
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The Magpie Diary: Oct. 12, 2025.

Motherhood

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The Softest Kinds of Love.

A musing on the softest kinds of love: patience, acceptance, receiving energy, "take as long as you need," etc.
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Signs You’re Becoming an Expert in Yourself —

Reflections on the goal of becoming an expert in myself -- and signs I might be on the right path.
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February 14, 2024

Losing Tilly.

Reflections on losing my dog, Tilly, and what's been helping me through this time of grief.
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November 6, 2024

It’s just that —

Musings on what really matters in life -- not the big, dramatic trips of a lifetime but the tiny, everyday, domestic gestures of love.
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January 21, 2025

Fragile Bells.

Musings on learning to listen for the magical in the mundane.
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April 3, 2023

Our Lives as Mosaics.

A musing on the notion that our lives are mosaics of the people we love.
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March 14, 2025

10 I Love Yous.

A musing on the many hidden ways of saying "I love you."
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January 27, 2025

Matryoshka.

Reflections on mothering my seven year old daughter -- and how she still needs my little tendernesses.
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July 8, 2024

The Befores.

Musings on time before children with my husband.
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March 26, 2024

A Magpie Desiderata.

A roundup of life lessons -- what we'd tell our twenty-year-old selves.
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Magpie Reader Best Sellers.

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Chic Under-$200 Work Wear Finds.

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Amazon Back to School Finds.

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