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With so many new books coming out every week, it’s easy to forget about the backlist. It’s rare to find people around the bookish internet jumping up and down about novels published 30 years ago. But there are a lot of fantastic novels from the 1990s that are worth jumping up and down about. I remember someone asking recently if books set in the 1990s should count as historical fiction. I don’t know the official designation for what constitutes historical fiction. But I do know that these novels from the 1990s, though written in a different era, are just as...

At times like these, we often want to go back to basics. And, I mean that in the best way possible. When it comes to style, having a good capsule of basic clothing items in your closet means you’re set for anything, from staying at home to heading out for a daily walk. If you are able to go out right now, you just need to add a few accessories to create a great outfit. I’ve partnered with Nordstrom to bring you 24 quality essentials along with 4 pairs of shoes and 10 accessories, all under $50. You can take...

Ok trying something totally different this month! As you may have noticed, my Amazon hauls have slowed down quite a bit and I feel like I should fess up as to why. For a myriad of reasons that I won’t fully dive into, but the main reason being that my focus is nearly fully shifted towards the Shop, especially in times like this. I’m so thankful to have a growing business, where I am able to touch, feel, try on, and truly believe in the clothes that I am promoting. The Shop means the world to my family and I...

Athleisure. It’s become a buzz word in recent years, with casualwear and sports attire having successfully made the crossover from gym get-up to high-fashion outfit. A contraction of the words ‘athletic’ and ‘leisure’, this relentless trend has transformed the way we dress for the everyday, fusing comfort with glamour to create a style choice that has become beloved my celebrities and supermodels alike. We’ve gone from a time where wearing anything less than a suit and tie or a skirt and blouse to work would be frowned upon, to one in which it is now perfectly acceptable to wear your...

When I was growing up, my parents would take me to the library and set me to work going through reels of microfiche films to help them work on our family genealogy project. They taught me how to look up census records, and birth and death records, but I became fascinated with all the stuff in the middle.I wanted to find out about what my ancestors did between those two events. The dates on their vital statistics records announced that they were born and then died. Their stories showed us that they lived. For the last few years, I’ve been conducting...