I am, in my own special way, quite the Pollyanna – life gives you lemons, make that lemonade! The silver lining, etc. This philosophy has largely stood me in good stead. It’s not that I’m oblivious to life’s larger horrors… Continue Reading
Hey, everyone. I was hoping this was going to be a post on a couple more fragrances – that was the plan! – but it didn’t pan out. I’m going to have to figure out some higher-grade tree pollen defense… Continue Reading
Spring in the Washington, D.C. area, where I grew up and where I lived for the last 20+ years, is astonishingly beautiful – the profusion of flowering bulbs and bushes and trees, the sudden vigor and the lushness of it… Continue Reading
Folks, don’t drop to the floor in shock, but today I have … something resembling a fragrance review. Yes. It’s true. It’s been bitterly cold and snowy here, but the weather finally broke – we climbed up to the mid-forties… Continue Reading
Hey, folks – it’s the last day of February, thank goodness … this time of year I get seized by inertia, and then annoyed at myself for spending my waking hours as if I were doing everything while submerged in… Continue Reading
After Portia’s post on SJP Lovely, I felt an undeniable longing to go find my bottle of Narciso Rodriguez, which I was pretty sure was in the perfume-stash cooler I packed for moving. Each bottle was safely wrapped pre-move, in… Continue Reading
It’s cold here, and we’ve had some lovely snow. I was walking along in the sunlight, getting a bit of fresh morning air, and the most interesting, delightful combination of smells wafted over me – that frosty, icy smell of… Continue Reading