January 18, 2026
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The Magpie Diary: Jan. 18, 2026.

Musings + Essays

Reflections on the week: my desire for more time with friends, my hair cut, and balancing this busy creative season with my private life.

About Jen Shoop

Meet The Author
January 17, 2026
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Jen’s Weekend Drafts: Central Park Poetry.

Musings + Essays
January 16, 2026
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What I Loved Wearing This Week: Jan. 16, 2026.

Classic Style
January 16, 2026
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What the Cool Girls Are Wearing: Jan 2026.

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January 15, 2026
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Doen Prelude to Spring + Other Fab New Jan 2026 Shopping Finds.

Fashion Trends
January 15, 2026
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Everyday Jewelry Favorites.

Classic Style
January 15, 2026
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Anthropologie Favorites: Jan. 2026.

Classic Style
January 14, 2026
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Is Victoria Beckham Beauty Worth It? + Other Beauty Musings.

Beauty
January 14, 2026
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Sage List (Things I Want to Let Go of in 2026).

Learnings
January 13, 2026
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What Are Your Running and Gym Shoe Recommendations?

Fashion Trends
January 13, 2026
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Blue Jays + Map Lichen.

Musings + Essays
January 12, 2026
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Valentine’s Day 2026.

Children's Finds
January 12, 2026
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Magpie Icebreakers: Winter 2026 Edition.

Musings + Essays

Featured Essays + 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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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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Sweaters for the Depths of Winter.

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The Best Jeans For Petites.

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Magpie Promo Codes.

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