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May 5, 2024
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The Magpie Diary: May 5, 2024.

Musings + Essays

This week's diary: my "three pin" theory when it comes to juggling life's busynesses, plus snapshots from my week.

About Jen Shoop

Meet The Author
May 4, 2024
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Jen’s Weekend Drafts: Orange Hill Farm, Slow Growth, + Heather Robertson Fitness.

Musings
May 3, 2024
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What I Loved Wearing This Week: May 3, 2024.

Fashion Trends
May 3, 2024
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Getting Ready for Summer Travel.

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May 2, 2024
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Styling Agolde Parker Shorts.

Fashion Trends
May 2, 2024
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Eyeing + Buying: May Edition.

Fashion Trends
May 1, 2024
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Our Favorite Undergarments.

Classic Style
May 1, 2024
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Do You Romanticize Your Life?

Musings + Essays
April 30, 2024
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My Minnow Order + Other Recent Children’s Buys/Finds.

Children's Finds
April 30, 2024
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Where Did You Get That?! Part Two.

Fashion Trends
April 29, 2024
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My Favorite White Tops.

Fashion Trends
April 29, 2024
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Publishing the Good News.

Musings + Essays
April 28, 2024
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The Magpie Diary: April 28, 2024.

Learnings

Featured Essays + Musings

March 26, 2024

A Magpie Desiderata.

A roundup of life lessons -- what we'd tell our twenty-year-old selves.
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March 20, 2024

Matryoshka.

Reflections on mothering my seven year old daughter -- and how she still needs my little tendernesses.
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March 18, 2024

Impressions of the Lost.

Reflections on the persistence, then attenuation, of grief.
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March 23, 2023

The Saltings.

Musings on the balance of work and motherhood -- the saltings, as I frame it here: the sticky, swampy bits nearly all of us footslog into and out of.
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May 29, 2023

It’s just that —

Musings on what really matters in life -- not the big, dramatic trips of a lifetime but the tiny, everyday, domestic gestures of love.
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June 15, 2023

Bad Days + Blank Pages.

An essay on getting over "bad days" and not giving up on ourselves when we've messed up.
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LET'S GO SHOPPING.

April 29, 2024
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My Favorite White Tops.

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April 18, 2024
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Styling Shorts.

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April 4, 2024
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White Jeans for Spring.

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