May 24, 2025
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Jen’s Weekend Drafts: Rituals for a Quiet Life.

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This week's inspirations: rituals for a quiet life, a funny meme about moving images in MS Word, writing motivation, bestsellers, and more.

About Jen Shoop

Meet The Author
May 23, 2025
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The Catbird + The Rat Snake + The Frog Song.

Musings + Essays
May 23, 2025
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What I Loved Wearing This Week: 5.23.2025

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May 22, 2025
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The Best Button-Downs for Summer 2025.

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May 22, 2025
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May Discoveries + Vignettes.

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May 21, 2025
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The Magpie Report: 5.21.2025.

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May 20, 2025
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My Favorite Fitness Gear.

Sport
May 20, 2025
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Movies That Feel Like Summer.

Magpie Edits
May 19, 2025
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Summer 2025 Pops of Color.

Classic Style
May 19, 2025
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A Gerund Girl.

Learnings
May 18, 2025
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The Magpie Diary: May 18, 2025.

Musings + Essays
May 17, 2025
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Jen’s Weekend Drafts: Comfort Shows + Patsy from the Clerk’s Office.

Musings + Essays
May 16, 2025
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What I Loved Wearing This Week: May 13, 2025.

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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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LET'S GO SHOPPING.

May 6, 2025
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New Arrivals at My Favorite Shops.

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

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April 21, 2025
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The Comeback of the Jelly Sandal.

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