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what I wore no. 9 (opens the original)
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Substack crops the images in this post. Click through the title link and read in a separate window if you want to see the full looks. I do not use affiliate links, receive brand gifts, or use AI for posting. Thank you for reading! I haven’t done an outfit post since April, so we’ve got late spring and nearly all of summer to recap! You can tell this was from months ago because Georgia looks so tiny here! This was a button down Monday outfit, one of my standard formulas to help make getting dress
15 years a teacher (opens the original)
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“So Carroll told him his theory of coaching. His main job was to decide what emotions he wanted his players to feel every day and then foster an environment that created those emotions. What’s practice gonna feel like? What’s the vibe?” Wright Thompson, “Why Steve Kerr Stayed with the Warriors”1<div class=
bonfire of the vanities (opens the original)
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Currently, I get my hair cut four times a year. I color my hair twice a year. Side note: When you notice someone has had a big hair change, I believe it is Southern manners to say, “Did you get your hair done?” You do NOT ask a woman directly if she has colored her hair, especially after the age of 40 or so. I love my hair stylist and even though it’s expensive, it’s worth it to me. My hair is fine but I have a lot of it. It can hold a curl or wave but does not hold style (like any sort of updo
summer movies (opens the original)
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I have always loved going to the movies. As someone who had (has?) the attention span of “a gnat with amnesia” (according to my grandmother), I’ve always loved being fully enveloped by the bright wall in the dark room with my popcorn + Buncha Crunch. I don’t feel like the experience can be replicated at home. Even when we had a wall-mounted projector and big screen, it never quite hit the same. Plus, there’s so much TV to watch! The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, the golden age era l
collecting art (opens the original)
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It’s been awhile since I’ve emailed! In case you need a reminder, here is a little about me. Thank you so much for reading. I started my art collection in 2020, when we got those pandemic bonus checks. Whenever I get a significant sum of money (not often enough!), I always try to spend at least some of it on a concrete thing that I want, so that I can point to the thing and know where my money went. My favorite thing to spend money on is clothes, but in 2020, we were going nowhere and I was preg
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