Archive for the ‘Soul’ Category

Soul | The Wind

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Enjoy this brilliant & creative commercial. Don’t we all want to contribute?

Soul | How I became a Mom at 50

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

I’ve been invited to contribute to ModernMom.com, “The magazine and community for the woman behind the mom,“ with 20 million visitors a month!  What a  wonderful opportunity and compliment. Here is my first article, one of many on my new life as a moma. If you’re inspired, may I gently encourage you to rate my article [...]

Soul | Style Isn’t Just About Clothes

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Fashion is perhaps one of the first things many of us think of when we think of style. And for good reason—it can be an evocative expression of who we are and how we want other people to read or interpret us.
But it’s limiting to think that the only way we can express our style [...]

Soul | I Gotta Be Me

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist and colleague of Sigmund Freud, coined the term lifestyle in 1929. Adler said,
“Lifestyle” is the sum total of the values, passions, knowledge, meaningful deeds and eccentricities that constitute the uniqueness of each individual.”
What struck me about Adler’s definition is the word eccentricities. I know my values, my passions, the meaningful deeds [...]

Soul | Style Statement as Words of Life

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

“I think of Style Statement as words of life, since it’s not just about clothing or dwellings, but the ever-changing space between the ears that needs decorating as much as other places.”
Sister Trilby Scarlett of the Goodwill
Flickr photo credit: Stone house, by jsome1

Soul | Style Statement Buddy

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Having a baby has meant a lifestyle change. I’m working at home now – no more people milling about the studio. Sometimes it’s quiet and I’m lonely, craving adult conversation and needing support. Fellow mamas, you know what I’m talking about. Hey, what I yearn for is a Style Statement buddy to share the joys [...]

Soul | Style Statement Mama

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Unbelievably, I turned 50 this year and became a mother to a beautiful baby boy. Before he was born I read stacks of books on parenting and asked all my girlfriends – young and old – about my crazy worries:

“If you have a family bed, how’s your sex life?”
“Do you let your baby cry?”
“What [...]