The Magpie Diary: Mar. 23, 2024.
Musings + Essays
Everything on my mind and heart this week: poetry about difference, setting the Easter table,…
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Airwalks + Credits + Merry Christmas.
Essays
A Merry Christmas wish -- plus thoughts on how you readers have enabled an airwalk.
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Into the Bleak Midwinter.
Essays
Reflections on an unplanned, recentering listening of "In the Bleak Midwinter" as we head into…
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The Magpie Diary: October 15, 2023.
Home
This week's diary: what was on my mind and heart.
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Weekend Vibes: I Stop Writing the Poem.
Fashion Trends
Weekend vibes: my new Ugg ultra-minis, a great sale at J. Crew, and a stirring…
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These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruins.
Book Club
Musings on T.S. Eliot's "Against these fragments I have shored my ruins" line from "The…
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Weekend Vibes: The Poetics of Change.
Fashion Trends
Weekend vibes: my favorite tinted moisturizer, this week's bestsellers, and a musing on change at…
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The Magpie Edit: Edition 47.
Musings
Everything on my mind and heart this week: a Mary Oliver poem, traveling with my…
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Weekend Vibes: Many Ways to Be Quiet.
Fashion Trends
My new Madewell trousers, this week's most popular finds, and a musing on the multivalence…
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A Time for Starlight and Lamplight.
Essays
Reflections on different seasons of life -- the way they call for different kinds of…
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