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This & That: January 27, 2023

A new British drama series that is being well received and I cannot wait for it to become available in the states, quite a few winter clothing sales to explore, books on averting self-sabotage, welcoming the tranquility back into your everydays, a comedic gardening novel, and a book on what loving really entails. A new […]

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13 Things That Made Me Smile This Month, So Far . . . (January 2023)

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13 Unexpected Forms of Clutter Preventing Your Everyday Life from Soaring

“Creativity lies beyond the clutter of everyday life.” Clutter in our lives, in its wide-stretching ways of existing, can harm our relationships, social life, health, financial security, success at work, and nearly everything under the umbrella of each of these arenas in our daily lives. In other words, our quality of life reflects our ability […]

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This & That: January 20, 2023

The return of a much-enjoyed Danish favorite drama, a new film starring a favorite Oscar winning actor and an impressive rising star, two books utilizing philosophy to offer life inspiration, a documentary on a petite French restaurant in LA, pieces for your capsule wardrobe – investment and items on sale, French-made men’s scarves for timeless […]

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349: What I Have Learned in French Class, So Far . . . , Partie Quatre

“On ne comprend jamais tout à fait une langue avant d’en comprendre au moins deux.” It took 43 years for me to finally learn the French alphabet, and when I say learn I mean how to properly pronounce each letter, even after taking French classes in college and then again taking French 102 and 103 […]

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Bottle Shock, a film: petit plaisir #349

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, Bottle Shock tells the true story of how Californian wines put their name on the map of wines to drink. The wine blind tasting that shocked the world, in 1976, set up by  Steven Spurrier, played exquisitely by Alan Rickman, is a British expatriate living in Paris. Convinced […]

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The Best Investment to Make in 2023: Yourself

In a recent article in The Financial Times successful leaders in their field from business to acting to fashion shared the best advice they had ever been given. The entire list offers much to ponder and adopt for our own life journeys, but especially as we head into a year that looks to be a […]

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This & That: January 13, 2023

A reveal of a long-worked on bronze sculpture to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday this weekend, a new French film that looks like a fun watch, books on tapping into the creative approach for living a more fulfilling life no matter what our field of study or career, a new French series that […]

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10 January Ponderings . . .

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The New Year and An Approach to Style That Works, even in Tough Economic Times

The Financial Times predicts a slow down in sales for fashion brands in 2023 as prices will increase on the clothing and the brands we prefer, but inflation will reduce our ability to spend. As expected. Not a surprise, and while this may come as bad news, if we have been applying the approach of […]

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