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May 11, 2025
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The Magpie Diary: May 11, 2025.

Musings + Essays

How do we show up for the younger versions of ourselves, the older versions of ourselves, and ourselves as we are today?

About Jen Shoop

Meet The Author
May 10, 2025
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Jen’s Weekend Drafts: Big May Energy.

Musings + Essays
May 9, 2025
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What I Loved Wearing This Week: May 9, 2025.

Fashion Trends
May 9, 2025
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Ask Magpie: Lightweight Summer Pants, Cover-Ups, and More.

Fashion Trends

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May 8, 2025
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Lightweight Top Layers for Spring/Summer.

Fashion Trends
May 8, 2025
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Lagniappe.

Musings
May 7, 2025
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What Are Your SOS Beauty Products?

Beauty
May 7, 2025
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The People Who Keep the Lamps Lit.

Musings + Essays
May 6, 2025
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Summer Nanotrend: Terry Everything.

Fashion Trends
May 6, 2025
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New Arrivals at My Favorite Shops.

Fashion Trends
May 5, 2025
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Summer Stripes.

Classic Style
May 5, 2025
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The Muse.

Musings + Essays
May 4, 2025
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The Magpie Diary: May 4, 2025.

Musings

Featured Essays + Musings

January 21, 2025

Fragile Bells.

Musings on learning to listen for the magical in the mundane.
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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.

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New Arrivals at My Favorite Shops.

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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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