May 3, 2025
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Jen’s Weekend Drafts: Finish the Day and Be Done with It.

Musings + Essays

This week's inspirations, including a letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson and a funny reel on crossword puzzle clues.

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May 2, 2025
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What I Loved Wearing This Week: May 2, 2025.

Fashion Trends
May 2, 2025
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Ask Magpie: Raffia Hats, Summer Skirts, + More.

Fashion Trends
May 1, 2025
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Summer Nano-trend: The Bungee Cord Detail.

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Three Nights at Disneyworld.

Travel
April 30, 2025
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Bold Sneakers for Spring.

Classic Style
April 30, 2025
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Three Poems for the Last Wednesday in April.

Musings + Essays
April 29, 2025
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Versatile Dresses for Spring Travel.

Fashion Trends
April 29, 2025
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Co-Ord Outfits & Matching Sets.

Classic Style
April 28, 2025
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Target Run: Spring 2025 Edition.

Sales + Budget Buys
April 28, 2025
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The Lost Lilac.

Musings + Essays
April 27, 2025
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The Magpie Diary: Apr. 27, 2025.

Musings + Essays
April 26, 2025
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Jen’s Weekend Drafts: The Big Question + Amy Poehler on Cringe Mountain.

Musings

Featured Essays + Musings

January 21, 2025

Fragile Bells.

Musings on learning to listen for the magical in the mundane.
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April 3, 2023

Our Lives as Mosaics.

A musing on the notion that our lives are mosaics of the people we love.
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February 14, 2024

Losing Tilly.

Reflections on losing my dog, Tilly, and what's been helping me through this time of grief.
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November 6, 2024

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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March 14, 2025

10 I Love Yous.

A musing on the many hidden ways of saying "I love you."
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January 27, 2025

Matryoshka.

Reflections on mothering my seven year old daughter -- and how she still needs my little tendernesses.
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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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July 8, 2024

The Befores.

Musings on time before children with my husband.
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March 26, 2024

A Magpie Desiderata.

A roundup of life lessons -- what we'd tell our twenty-year-old selves.
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January 14, 2025

Reteaching a Thing Its Loveliness

Reteaching a thing its loveliness -- reminding your loved ones of their innate goodness.
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Microtrend: Powder Blue.

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Four Youthful Microtrends to Try.

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January 10, 2025
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Monochrome Dressing for Winter.

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