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Soft Power
Soft Power
You have got very good at the part where you cope. What you have lost is the part where anything feels like yours — the hour that is not owed to someone, the evening...
Sensuality
Sensuality
You got dressed this morning without looking. Not carelessly — efficiently, the way you...
Undimmed
Undimmed
You have caught yourself doing it. Softening the sentence, laughing at the end of...
Becoming
Becoming
Someone asks what you are into these days and you find you have no...
Soft Power
Contrast, Not Matching
You have bought sunglasses you loved in the shop and never wore again, more...
Buy the Thing You Understand
Two necklaces, both gold, one four times the price of the other. The listings say 18K gold-plated stainless steel and 925 sterling silver and neither sentence means anything to you...
Ten Seconds a Day
There is a chain in your drawer you stopped wearing because something about it changed and you were not sure what you had done wrong. Probably nothing. Probably nobody ever...
Buying Lingerie Online for No Occasion At All
There is a particular quiet that happens at eleven at night, phone in hand, basket half...
What the Cut-Outs Are Actually For
You have scrolled past a hundred of them and closed the tab every time, because the...
You Decided This at Nineteen
Black sunglasses are a decision you made once, aged about nineteen, and have never revisited. They...
Everyone Owns the Plain Ones
You own the plain gold hoops. Everyone owns the plain gold hoops, and there is a...
The Ring That Made You Hesitate
You have a drawer of rings you never wear. They were fine in the shop and...
Give It to Yourself
Every heart necklace you have ever owned came from somebody else. A boyfriend, a birthday, your...
Shed and Continue
You keep coming back to the snake ones. Something in you likes them and something else...
There is a difference between treating yourself and returning to yourself.
Love Your Beauty
Every piece carries a chapter
Topic says what it is about. Chapter says who it is for.
One letter, most Sundays.
Written to one woman rather than a list. No offers dressed as observations, and nothing sent because it is a Tuesday.