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#Window Shopping
On a recent trip to Lynchburg, Virginia, I was able to spend some time just strolling around town with Prima. One advantage of having an older child is you can occasionally pretend they are adults. They are good company that way, when the mood strikes. Living with a mini-tyrant (baby), who tries to rule the…
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Please Welcome Our New Logo!
For me, Simply Turquoise represents the writing as much as the design, together with the crunch of cheerios under your feet and the markers and stab wounds on your sofa. It’s about trying to live in a pretty space while chaos swarms around you. The way most of us mothers actually live. It is about…
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Life in Cards
Every year, there are several “Christmas letters” that come in the mail, via snail mail, that I anxiously await. I cannot describe the anticipation that I feel knowing that these will come, with an update about several people and families that I feel so close to, but yet do not see very often. One letter,…
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Jack London and His Square.
If you threw a rock from Jack London Square in Oakland, you could hit Alaska. Well, at least the cabin Jack London lived in, during the Yukon gold rush in Alaska. Seeing that log cabin, so basic and an obvious tool of survival and necessity, surrounded by palm trees and a beautiful harbor, is a…
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