Author: Susan Blakey

  • Wednesday Miscellany: Liminal Spaces

    Not Quite Spring, Not Quite Summer… We’ve settled into that annual weather pattern sometimes referred to as “June gloom.” Overcast in the mornings and evenings,…

  • Today, I Must Digress

    Many of you have told me that you read and enjoy this blog because it’s a pleasant distraction from all that’s going on in the…

  • Something New I Love

    Let’s get SPF’d up! If there’s one beauty product I use daily and without fail, it’s sunscreen. 🧴 Skin cancer runs in my family, but…

  • Golden State

    Life at a slower pace… For most of my life, I worked in very intense, deadline-driven jobs. Multi-tasking was a skill that served well, and…

  • Infrastructure

    While I’ve always loved the gorgeous silhouettes of Christian Dior’s “New Look,” I couldn’t for a moment imagine squeezing myself into the kind of corsetry…

  • From Funk to Funky

    A little over a year ago, I had to acknowledge that I’d fallen into a deep style rut. The wardrobe of simple neutral pieces I’d…