The journey to graduation is a momentous occasion, a culmination of years of hard work, dedication, and academic achievement. As graduates prepare to step onto the stage and receive their diplomas, one question looms large in their minds: “Where to buy the perfect graduation dress?” The gra...
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Silk should be one of the most special and impressive gifts to buy in Hoi An. As you may know, it is the paradise for luxury authentic Vietnamese textiles. There are some traditional craft villages that you can visit to buy silk. The local artists normally use antique wooden looms to p...
Just the other day, I found my nerdy husband’s class ring in my parent’s basement (yes- you are not crazy…that IS a weird place to find your husband’s class ring). I was excited to bring it home to him to put into his memory box. When I got it home, we both pulled out ...
In a current of unexpected life moves, I floated towards the Pacific Ocean and landed along the fragile, factious Santa Monica Mountains to Malibu. The salty seaweed smell of the ocean streams through my car, driving down the Pacific Coast highway on my way to buy groceries.Vintage Marketis...
d kind of like a day or two to yourself. And you pull away. You wonder if maybe you’re not compatible after all. You notice the way he always leaves his shoes right in the doorway and you’ve tripped over them eighty-five times. Or how she sometimes puts garbage on the counter ...
Her workshop demonstrations have included full auction scenes mimicking those of the Old South. In them, she is the plantation mistress inspecting a black man for “purchase.” He’s in shackles and “I slap him on his face and push him down on the ground,...
As forty looms large, hovering ominously on a not-so-distant horizon, all I need to do is look in the mirror to be reminded that nothing stays the same for very long. I can’t help but notice every new crease, line, wrinkle, dimple or dent that forms in my reflection as everything...
Fruit of the Loom or Joe Boxer, makes their sweats with a blend of cotton and polyester. Hitting a big-box store for 100% cotton T-shirts is easy. Finding 100% cotton sweats are nearly impossible. I visited a variety of stores prior to our campout looking forone100% cotton hoodie and...
Here’s a debut that looms large in hindsight but didn’t register much of a blip at the time. When the debut episode ofCheersaired on Sept. 30, 1982, only 9.6 million viewers tuned in, ranking the sitcom 60th in the ratings. Things didn’t improve much from there as, despite critic...