June 22, 2025
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The Magpie Diary: June 22, 2025.

Musings + Essays

Everything on my mind this week -- specifically, reflections on the female role models I quietly call to mind in different anxious or unsettling situations.

About Jen Shoop

Meet The Author
June 21, 2025
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Jen’s Weekend Drafts: Striped Pants + TBR Piles.

Musings + Essays
June 20, 2025
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What I Loved Wearing This Week: June 20, 2025.

Fashion Trends
June 20, 2025
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Hats for Summer 2025.

Fashion Trends

Magpie Find

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June 19, 2025
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A Smattering of This Month’s Small Joys + Discoveries: June 2025.

Beauty
June 18, 2025
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June Amazon Finds + Favorites.

Fashion Trends
June 18, 2025
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Gingham Pants (+Other Statement Pants) for Summer.

Fashion Trends
June 17, 2025
2

Bedding for Kids.

Children's Finds
June 17, 2025
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What the Trees Teach Me.

Learnings
June 16, 2025
2

Swimsuit Cover Ups.

Classic Style
June 16, 2025
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Book Review: Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore.

Book Club
June 15, 2025
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The Magpie Diary: June 15, 2025.

Musings + Essays
June 14, 2025
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Jen’s Weekend Drafts: Sounds of Summer.

Fashion Trends

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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LET'S GO SHOPPING.

May 6, 2025
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New Arrivals at My Favorite Shops.

Fashion Trends View The Post
May 2, 2025
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Ask Magpie: Raffia Hats, Summer Skirts, + More.

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April 21, 2025
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The Comeback of the Jelly Sandal.

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