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March 10, 2025
Travel Diary: Arriving in Paris for 3 Special Days of Exhibits & Explorations + Settling into Brittany
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March 6, 2025
This & That: March 7, 2025
Book, after book, and in a variety of different genres and even languages! I have found two French books – one a novel, the other a true story – and they both will delight in different ways. A film to inspire, another to inform, but perhaps they each do both. 🙂 Clothing finds for stylish […]
March 4, 2025
399: Eight Things I’ve Learned in my 46th Year
There is an awareness available to anyone who steps fully into their forties. It often happens a couple of years after turning the big 4 – 0, but it’s there, waiting for each of us to realize we are half-way through (if we are so fortunate to live into our 90s) this beautiful gift called […]
March 2, 2025
An Amazing Gift That is Always Within Each of Us
“Choosing joy often means stepping into the unknown. It can mean letting go of what’s ‘practical’ and taking a risk on something uncertain.” —Josie Ane Sakura, writer and yoga instructor Choosing that one particular hat to wear out into the garden. It may not look like it fits, it may be all bedraggled, but wearing it […]
March 1, 2025
TSLL’s Spring 2025 Shopping Guide + 70 handpicked finds for the Capsule Wardrobe
Spring’s arrival nears and before it officially says hello, refreshing our seasonal capsule wardrobe is a regular tradition I enjoy and maybe you do too. This season, many collections drew inspiration from Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy as you will see in the Creative Simplicity section of the shopped items, so imagine timeless neutrals, with a touch of […]
February 28, 2025
A Cuppa Moments w/Shannon, March 2025
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February 27, 2025
This & That: February 28, 2025
Hugh Bonneville is back in a new limited series, oodles of books on a variety of areas of social and health sciences from navigating uncertainty, improving our memory, digital well-being and taming an overthinking mind. As well, a new book has been released in a favorite French mystery series, and a brand new adaptation of […]
February 25, 2025
10 Things That Made Me Smile This Month, So Far . . . (February 2025)
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February 23, 2025
What That Long Held Dream Wishes You Would Do: Be Brave and Blossom
The same questions dance about in your head just about any free moment your mind has time to wander: Could I do that? I really want to give it a shot, but should I? I’ve never done this before, but nearly everything about it speaks ‘my language’, is it too farfetched to give it a […]
Gardening at Le Papillon in February, 2025
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