Love Notes

Sep 13, 2025 • #blue #fall

Stop Singing the Blues 9/8/25

Last Monday, I promised to stop singing the end of summer blues, and I'm fulling intending to make good on the pledge. In the words of that unexpected poet, Jimi Hendrix, "The blues is easy to play but hard to feel".

How about we lean into the playing part?

Today's note is filled to the gills - oodles and oodles of new goodies to share, sprinkled with some of the best blues from the world of design.

Care for a soundtrack to kick off the new season? I've made one for you on Spotify here - "Rock Me on the Water" ( no surprise there) and I happily promise that it doesn't include a single chord of Jimi Hendrix. It's filled with old favorites to deliver a spring to your step, and maybe even get you singing along. READ MORE

Feb 08, 2025 • #balance #blue #pink #valentine

Balanced in Pink and Blue 2/3/25

Balance is hard (at least for me it is). But there it sits, waiting patiently to be called up to bat - if only we practice. Balance is not about perfection; it's about harmony. Let your mind's eye wander with me this morning ... picture the steady rhythm of waves meeting the shore , or the golden light of dawn embracing the earth. Do you feel balance? As women, we are naturally wired to do it all, to care for our families and one another, and to take care of whatever needs doing. But sometimes we have dreams of our own - have yours fallen by the wayside in the pursuit of ... whatever it is that we pursue, day in and day out? We must make time to nurture ourselves with the same devotion we've shown to our families, our careers, our commitments. As Brene Brown reminds us,

"You can't pour from an empty cup". READ MORE

Sep 23, 2024 • #blue

Glimmers in Blue 9/16/24

All that glimmers is not gold. Sometimes it's blue (which happens to be the theme of today's note). Sometimes what glimmers is not even a color - it could be a sound (the opening notes of a your childhood best friend's favorite song), or a scent (a whiff of your mother's perfume). Glimmers are little surprise moments of joy. How about a baby smiling at you while in the grocery store line - that will always light me up. And here's the thing - the more you look for glimmers, the more you'll find them. So take a mental snapshot, and try to keep a glimmer file in your mind's eye. READ MORE

Jul 07, 2024 • #blue #Green #hydrangea #nantucket

Summer Loving Blues and Greens 7/1/24

My friend Merrill and I rode bikes out to Cisco last week, and this is the view that greeted us. I wish I had the photography skills to better capture the myriad shades of blues and greens emerging from the departing fog. Doesn't the little house on the left look like it belongs in a Nancy Meyers movie? What would the plot be ... hmm, how about this: Middle aged woman <still wears the same size jeans she did in college, and has the most perfect easy breezy hair style, despite the island's relentless humidity>, borrows a friend's Nantucket cottage for a weekend and ends up staying through to Christmas "to find herself". What do you suppose it is that our protagonist finds? Just how you answer that may tell you something about where you are in life. READ MORE

Mar 24, 2024 • #backgammon #beach #blue #boca grande #shells

The Voice of the Tides 3/4/24

This week, I'm thinking about water. Today, we are heading to Florida, where I'll be doing a trunk show at the Gasparilla Inn. I'm looking forward to some down time too, walking the beach and watching the waves. There's no sense in me searching for a good metaphor for that restorative feeling of being by the sea, because I know that you already know precisely what it is that I'm trying to say.

There's just so much good stuff to learn from the sea. You can skip reading right now, and go pick up Anne Morrow Lindbergh's "A Gift from the Sea". You'll be glad you did. But I've got a Love Note left here to create, so I guess I'll pick up my proverbial pencil and let my thoughts flow ... how about this (I have been giving it some thought all week) ... the ebb and flood of tides are a mirror of life. Rushing and receding. No phase lasting forever. READ MORE

Love Notes

Posts tagged: blue

Stop Singing the Blues 9/8/25

Balanced in Pink and Blue 2/3/25

Glimmers in Blue 9/16/24

Summer Loving Blues and Greens 7/1/24

The Voice of the Tides 3/4/24