Materfamilias Writes

Wide or Skinny, Jeans and Boots . . .

Wide or Skinny, Jeans and Boots . . .

Lisa (of Amid Privilege)’slatest post on Street vs. Fashion Editors reminded me that I’d copied out a line from Lisa Armstrong’s Summary of 10 Key Looks for Fall in the September Harper’s Bazaar. Harper’s regularly features…

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Here be Dragons. . . .

Here be Dragons. . . .

 Very few words to spare today, so I rummaged through the travel photos and wondered if you’d let me share some dragon sightings. I spotted these fellows in Barcelona this past spring,  right across the…

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Dressing my MOTB Dress Down and Waving Bye to Summer

Dressing my MOTB Dress Down and Waving Bye to Summer

Stormy Day of the Fall Equinox here, so I thought I’d wave a final good-bye to summer by showing you how I styled a beloved “S MaxMara dress for end-of-summer heat in the classroom. The…

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For Your Viewing (and perhaps Reading) Pleasure . . .

For Your Viewing (and perhaps Reading) Pleasure . . .

Updated Saturday evening: My son texted me to say he’d enjoyed this post, but he thought I should tag the photos: #nofilter. And he’s probably right — most of you might have assumed some Photoshopping was…

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Leaning In with Sheryl Sandberg

Leaning In with Sheryl Sandberg

I haven’t been here for a while, have I? But ay-yi-yi! I postedover here about my response to Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In and that is getting a reaction. If you don’t read my other blog, but…

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