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November 30, 2025
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The Magpie Diary: Nov. 30, 2025.

Musings + Essays

Reflections on staying present during this busy holiday season -- how to elbow out the noise and focus on what really matters.

About Jen Shoop

Meet The Author
November 29, 2025
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Jen’s Weekend Drafts: Jen with a Single N.

Musings + Essays
November 28, 2025
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What I Loved Wearing This Week: Nov. 28, 2025.

Classic Style
November 28, 2025
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The Magpie 2025 Black Friday Edit.

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November 27, 2025
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Happy Thanksgiving, 2025.

Musings + Essays
November 26, 2025
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Luxury Winter Accessory Gift Ideas.

Fashion Trends
November 26, 2025
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What Little Things Make Life Better?

Musings + Essays
November 25, 2025
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Black Friday Highlights: Doen + Veronica Beard.

Sales + Budget Buys
November 25, 2025
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What I’m Gifting This Year.

Holiday
November 24, 2025
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Little Women Winter.

Book Club
November 24, 2025
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What Names Do You Love?

Musings + Essays
November 23, 2025
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Holiday Dressing with Shopbop (Everything 25% Off).

Fashion Trends
November 23, 2025
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The Magpie Diary: Nov. 23, 2025.

Musings

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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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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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