It´s been a weird year, sparking some odd reflection which landed me in Vintage Village.  I started rolling around in the old Cotys from my mother´s day and in doing so I found some incredible gems.   All the extant-vintage favorites are achingly beautiful, with an aura that speaks of years of careful crafting. I thought [...]

Lee normally posts today, but he let me know that he’s been diagnosed with Swine Flu!!!!!!  Yikes x3!!!  So send all your best wishes/prayers/karmic love his way that he recovers soon. Since I hadn’t really planned anything for today,  let’s go through some drawing winners that I managed to forget about.  But first, some fun. [...]

Just so you don’t have to guess how I feel.  I love it, adore it, need it, must have it.  Yes, yes, this is what oud perfumes should be, so everyone else should pay attention.  Now, the price has me shuddering - about 400 for 50 mls, though the refills once you go through the first 50 [...]

Sometimes, a big city can be welcoming, and sometimes it can wallop you with an urban blight that impacts you so profoundly, it makes you scratch your head and wonder why you love that particular place so much to begin with. When I crossed the border into Ontario for the first time since my enemy [...]

Have you ever, on the long road through life, just looked around you and thought:  I really need to edit my life?  I do from time to time, even though I usually don’t let my life get too cluttered.  Sometimes you just notice that you have some things/people in your life that are redundant or [...]