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December 20, 2025
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Jen’s Weekend Drafts: Nostalgia Is a Gift.

Motherhood

This week's inspirations: thoughts on nostalgia as a gift, favorite new words, more chic food things, and lots of good shopping.

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December 19, 2025
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Holiday Joy with Talbots.

Classic Style
December 19, 2025
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What I Loved Wearing This Week: Dec. 19, 2025.

Classic Style
December 19, 2025
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Advice from Older Sister Figures —

Learnings

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December 18, 2025
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Dark Rinse Denim Microtrend.

Classic Style
December 18, 2025
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Childhood Meals + Mother Magic.

Learnings
December 17, 2025
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Gear for Winter Sports / Skiing / Weather.

Classic Style
December 17, 2025
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My Favorite Things: 2025 Edition.

Beauty
December 16, 2025
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A Few Last Minute Gifts That Will Arrive in Time for Christmas —

Holiday
December 16, 2025
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Loungewear for the Mysterious Week Between Christmas and New Year’s.

Classic Style
December 16, 2025
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Book Review: Heart the Lover by Lily King.

Book Club
December 15, 2025
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What Are Your Favorite Specialty Pantry and Snack Items?

Home
December 15, 2025
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Things I Find Randomly Chic: Niche Editions.

Musings + Essays

Featured Essays + Musings

July 29, 2025

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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July 28, 2025

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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LET'S GO SHOPPING.

November 5, 2025
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Magpie Promo Codes.

Sales + Budget Buys View The Post
October 22, 2025
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Fair Isle For Fall.

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October 15, 2025
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Styling Scarves for Fall.

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