Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
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Three reasons you need a professional seamstress
22 Jul 2016Is it hot where you live? I think I’ve discovered the trick of staying cool without baring too much skin:…
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How to Buy and Use Vintage Postage
12 Jul 2016Even the smallest wedding can turn into an avalanche of planning. Who could blame a bride for taking the easy…
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Gaga Goes Home
23 Jun 2016What is The Plan for Action? This was the prevailing question in my mother-in-law’s life. She posed it so regularly…
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What brings you in today?
26 May 2016What brings you in today? What a clever line. This from the Ann Taylor sales clerk on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue.…
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Life in Yesterday’s Clothes: 5 Ways to Mimic Marie Antoinette’s Better Side
07 Apr 2016On the surface, Marie Antoinette isn’t someone you’d want to imitate. Notorious for her extravagance, the Queen of France and…
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Sincerely Sophia Loren
24 Mar 2016Embed from Getty Images Sophia Loren’s first words when she took the stage in Indianapolis Tuesday night: “Bumpity, bumpity, bump.”…
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Help! You’re flying and you can’t come down
20 Dec 2015One morning last month, the New York Times arrived on my front porch with what looked like a cardboard box.…
