The Transformative Powers of Cheap Wigs

The extraordinary silvery wig above is $13.88 worth of identity experiment: a bargain. Having discovered that searching “wigs” at Amazon, yields an astonishing array of styles and colors, I bought the 32″ Long Curly Hair Lolita Custom Party Wig (Grey) to see what would happen if I went from brown to gray in a flash. I discovered way more.

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Mary Oliver: Taking Yes for an Answer

Mary Oliver’s Morning Poem starts our week with the recognition that it can be challenging to embrace even the simplest aspects of life that we ALL deserve.  If we look around, we find that the goods were delivered despite our best efforts at self-sabotage. Brene Brown described it:

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Your Body is a Museum with Ancient Roots

(Video link here.) Vox’s compelling little video provides a fine bit of reflection for the morning: You don’t have to read high-brow research to find signs of our evolutionary history;  you can see it in each of our bodies. Your body is a museum of natural history…(though they seemed to have missed the most wondrous…

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GutenTag’s Graphical Day Planner Inspired Our Own

We’ve tried numerous day/task planners in our quest for one that really works. We recently came across a graphical way to plan time that claims to liberate us from linear agendas and apps. The GutenTag Method features a clock face that you stamp into a notebook so you can graph you day around it. We found downsides and wonderful benefits once we started hacking the idea.

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Doable Ideas from a Luxe Tuscan Home

New York Times’ T Magazine recently featured a tour the Tuscan home of Roberto Baciocchi’s, architect of Prada and La Perla stores. There are a wonderful slide show and video of the luxurious mashup of antiques, art and materials — including bark painstakingly harvested from 300-year-old pine trees —in a medieval-era tower that adjoins a mid-Renaissance…

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The Ultimate Roast Duck

Many years ago, I learned a brilliant, virtually effortless method for roasting duck from Mindy Heiferling, an inspired cook. Five hours of roasting in a low oven renders out the fat and makes the flesh tender enough to eat with a spoon, the skin crackling and crisp. Recently, I revisited the recipe and found myself…

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