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A shopping website recently asked me to guest post on their blog about transitioning your wardrobe from Winter to Spring. What they neglected to tell me was that they wanted it to be no longer than 300 words. So I presented one that was nearly 3 times the length, and then had to cut it down until it was not much more than a glorified bullet list. I didn't want the original post to go to waste, so I'm sharing it here. Spring officially begins in less than 3 weeks, and it starts to show.  Read more >

I think I’m having a mid-life crisis a few years ahead of time. Not the kind where I’d die my hair platinum blond, get a tramp stamp and start wearing too-short skirts and too-revealing tops, and flirting with younger men. Though if I ever was going to get a tramp stamp, I have to say, it wouldn’t be a butterfly, even though they are pretty, and the whole wings=freedom metaphor and stuff.  Read more >

M. and I were introduced by a mutual friend. She knew we were both young moms, married to Swiss men, and that we both spoke primarily English and little German; she figured we might have something in common. She was only partially right: we actually had a lot in common.  Read more >