Category: Reflection
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I dream of Harrod’s
I have somehow drifted into British fashion YouTube. For whatever reason, the site has decided to grant me my fashion fix with side of accents and dry British humour. (The extra u was intentional. 😊 ) Watching them has exposed me to a whole different type of department store: Harrods. The way place is set…
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The value of African fashion
Throughout the week I have been writing about Studio 189. The short introduction, if you haven’t read the other posts, is that it is a higher end brand of clothing produced in Africa using many of the traditional African clothing making techniques. I previously saw one of the skirts, ornately patterned and dyed, and I…
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Face to face is better
I don’t know who needs to see this, but please do not send bad news via text. Who wants to be the one to share bad news, have difficult conversations, or give negative feedback? Very few of us. The way of lessening the discomfort, granted to us by modern technology is the text message. It…
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Normally all about the assumptions
I was introduced to the book, The Four Agreements, during a major struggle in my life. I proceeded to read the literal agreements, and not the book they came from. My brother then insisted it is not the same, so I got the audio book. After several days of sitting stuck in city traffic, the…
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What’s on the other side of lonely?
The crippling anxiety and pain of rejection got to me. As a certified adult, I felt like the new kid in school and everyone else at the networking event already met their friend quota. All the cliques were closed for new membership. But as painful as that experience was for me, I can imagine the…
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Makeup: making up excuses and making up my own path
I am unequivocally an adult woman. And yet I never really gotten into makeup. This is not for some kind of philosophy against it. It is moreso that I just never tried it. And now, it seems scary, because it is one thing to make a mistake as a teenager. It is a whole different…
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The clutter I hold on to
My anxiety increases each time I see the clutter. I know that I need to do a deep clean, but I keep putting it off. I pushed back doing a closet cleanout until I completed a fitness challenge. Then, I never completed it. I put off getting rid of the old school work because I…
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Musings on croissants, Paris, and Louis Vuitton
Croissants are a treat I love making. Maybe it’s the desire to be a real baker, one who uses just her hands and muscle to knead the dough without equipment. Maybe it is just because there is no substitute for the buttery flakiness when they’re fresh out of the oven. As much as I enjoy…
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Adidas loses their trademark case, and now I am reflecting on what I lose focusing on others
A little while back, I wrote about Adidas Groups suit of Thom Browne, on the grounds that the luxury brand was infringing on their Signature Three Stripes. In that post, my thoughts were that it didn’t seem reasonable that consumers would be confused. With Adidas diehards looking specifically for the correct number of stripes and…
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Even with a billion dollars
Today’s bloganuary prompt: If you had a billion US dollars, how would you spend it? To be honest, when I first read that, I immediately thought, “If I were given a billion dollars, I would probably waste it.” I don’t mean that I would go on a crazy spending spree and end up bankrupt somehow.…
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