I want to share a few words about my misguided "rebrand" and my abject silence that immediately followed. When I wrote those last couple posts a few months ago, I had big hopes, maybe even a touch of nostalgia, trying to rekindle a version of myself from a decade or so ago, someone I was… Continue reading A Sparrow’s Way Home
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Personal Style Redux
Not to harp on the subject of mid-life style and figuring out what works on you in this stage of life, while also bringing you joy, I have just a few more things to say that reflect the style and name change of the blog. Might as well have the blog match the style of… Continue reading Personal Style Redux
Skimmer Dresses & Rock-n-Roll: Stitching My Way Back Home
After years with Woolie Sparrow, I’m returning to skimmer dresses and rock-n-roll. IU've treid to deny it, but the pandemic reminded me that mid-century joy, easy tailored fashion, beatnik musings, and casseroles with character, has always been my true creative home. So here begins Stitch-O-Rama Susie: a revival rooted in vintage charm, domestic dignity, and intentional living.
A Calendar Made of Birds: Finding Time Again Through Journaling
Time hasn’t felt right since 2020. My mind now tells me things only in reference to before or after the pandemic lockdown. BP or AP, if you will. And so, for the last 4 1/2 years, the seasons passed in strange loops. I can remember certain events in vivid detail, but never quite when they happened. Time… Continue reading A Calendar Made of Birds: Finding Time Again Through Journaling
A Mostly No-Mow May
I don’t mow before at least the first week of May. It is my cardinal rule. Partly because the bees and other beneficial insects need time to wake, stretch their wings, and rise from their winter beds. Partly because I like letting the wildflowers, the tiny, scrappy ones the world tries so hard to ignore,… Continue reading A Mostly No-Mow May
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