And take the time to tell five people today that you appreciate what they have done for you. Bonus loveliness for connecting with those people who usually remain “invisible” in our lovely lives.
Enter the Queen with her hair about her ears by Joseph Mills
In second grade, she cut her hair, taking the blunt art class scissors and squeezing off a thick lock in the middle of her forehead. …
Victoria Woodhull Learns to Speak by Malaika King Albrecht
How odd that you prefer Spirits talking over a woman alone on a stage. So be it. I will tell you …
A Girl at His Show by Sheryl Monks
Every night Rasputin chose a different one to come up and go inside the box of blades. Always they were pretty, and always they were …
I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City by Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons
I was sixteen when I first saw New York City. Everybody who was anybody lived there. Katherine Hepburn, Brooke Astor, Judy Blume, and David Letterman. …
Day 6 2014
Candles make everything lovely, and there is so much you can do with them. Here are a couple of favorite DIYs to make your space lovely. Have more? Please share. It’s a lovely thing to do.
Read Aloud by Christine Fadden
Martini’s was a small family-run grocery store, just a five-minute drive from Grandmom’s house. I hadn’t been in yet that summer, what with all my …
A New and Different Summer by Jan Parker
That sun burned in an odd way that summer, hotter with wicked solar flares and meaner with intense magnetic disturbances. The crazy heat of it …