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March 23, 2025
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The Magpie Diary: Mar. 23, 2025.

Musings + Essays

The Magpie Diary: I'm deep into my spring self already.

About Jen Shoop

Meet The Author
March 22, 2025
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Jen’s Weekend Drafts: Portraits of Motherhood.

Motherhood
March 21, 2025
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The Shapes of Motherhood.

Book Club
March 21, 2025
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What I Loved Wearing This Week: Mar. 21, 2025.

Fashion Trends

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March 20, 2025
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Microtrend: Mesh Flats and Jellies for Spring.

Classic Style
March 20, 2025
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Things I Love in My Closet Right Now.

Fashion Trends
March 19, 2025
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Easter Basket Fillers for Children.

Children's Finds
March 19, 2025
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Fitness Finds for “Moving the Dirt” This Spring.

Sport
March 18, 2025
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On My Radar: 3.18.2025.

Fashion Trends
March 18, 2025
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Notes to Self on Motherhood.

Motherhood
March 17, 2025
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Elegant Everyday Dresses for Spring.

Classic Style
March 17, 2025
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The Wing of the Duck.

Essays
March 16, 2025
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The Magpie Diary: Mar. 16, 2025.

Musings + Essays

Featured Essays + Musings

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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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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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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June 15, 2023

Bad Days + Blank Pages.

An essay on getting over "bad days" and not giving up on ourselves when we've messed up.
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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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January 14, 2025

Reteaching a Thing Its Loveliness

Reteaching a thing its loveliness -- reminding your loved ones of their innate goodness.
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January 21, 2025
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Microtrend: Powder Blue.

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January 15, 2025
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Four Youthful Microtrends to Try.

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January 10, 2025
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Monochrome Dressing for Winter.

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