2020

June
23
On favorites, and America's everlasting dream

2019

September
21
Getting too bourgeois
April
20
The online clamor

2018

July
24
"I can walk away."

2017

November
17
A certain way to be
15
"She writes finely, but no one ever sees her"
March
2
"I don't need the likes."

2016

December
5
The way the world works
November
8
"You were allowed to think what you wanted"
February
1
"I am decisive, you know."

2015

August
5
"But, for some reason, was held back"
July
22
Literal mirages
May
16
Things I've Bought That I Love, Vol. 3
March
8
Tory Burch on negativity and noise
January
8
"Everything is possible"

2014

December
17
The key commandment of writing
10
Disco Christmas trees
November
4
Out in disguise
August
19
Just one of those things
4
The fine print of the dream
April
12
"You just gotta mine it"
1
Lauren Santo Domingo on doing your own thing
February
25
Priorities in hiring
January
28
A perfect conduit

2013

December
27
"It's very difficult to know where to be."
2
"No one likes to admit they're being helped."
October
20
"Some sort of anger"
September
29
"A complete Gump moment"
16
The case for being critical
August
14
The cleverness of others
6
That luminous part of you
July
17
Quit this crazy scene
5
On deep sworn vows, and time
June
15
On politesse
April
8
Lilly Pulitzer on parties
March
20
Bonkers for that bare bulb
13
For posterity's sake
10
The freedom of a jaded world
January
18
Can't argue with that
16
The woman who waits

2012

December
30
A year in smartphone snaps
17
A back to basics reminder
October
31
Camille Paglia on 'Real Housewives' and the 'ferocity of female sexuality'
September
5
The art of paring down decisions
August
26
The San Francisco scene
14
Starting -- and hanging in
July
24
When you learn things
10
On Buddhism and "bad habits"
June
1
So that's how she did it
May
31
Speak to that thing
5
On habits, and being human
April
26
That thump of ambition
March
18
"You've got to grab it."
8
Hip to be uncool
February
2
On delicious conversations

2011

December
14
On looking good in photos
October
22
Moments of awesomeness
22
Hopeful shopping
September
26
On the simple life
August
17
Gwyneth Paltrow on marriage and coincidence
July
28
On raising city kids
7
Dodging bullets
6
Connecting the dots
May
31
That love and pain stuff
13
Oprah on dancing with the one that brung ya
1
On being impressionable
April
18
On great clothes and funny lines
17
A point I can steer toward
9
The absence of the witch
March
17
Happy golden days of yore
2
Come on, come out
February
28
On Ohio and oregano
21
Mars and Venus in interviews
19
On love and change
17
The imminent light you offer
9
Things I've Bought that I Love, Vol. 2
January
24
Like a horse and carriage
14
Having met a few trust fund babies in my time...

2010

December
27
The love you take
19
Winter pet peeve
9
"No negative blog viewing"
4
Idle and blessed, wild and precious
November
30
Cheesy zing of the day
19
The New Testament...
19
Things I Used to Buy That I Don't Love Anymore, Part 2
1
Countenance
October
29
Lost and found
28
Vintage 2005
14
On linking in, and out
13
Your golden gated cities
8
Funny people
September
21
"Ask yourself why nobody is agreeing with you."
18
An honest mistake
14
While you're still in the pink
14
A Thoroughly Modern Rx
9
"Let yourself be inert"
7
On Balenciaga and going beyond the LBD
August
19
On seizing the day, and the difficulty thereof
19
"Life is not what you dream"
8
"Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry"
7
Summer Wind
June
24
Le Nez
4
On Journalism
May
30
"If I'm going to sit down and eat with you, just tell me the truth."
25
Crystal balling
23
Beggars, choosers, etc.
23
Another PSA...
19
Hugh Hefner On California
April
27
Dining à Deux
11
Crown and anchor me
March
20
The Tao of Lagerfeld
20
The New Victorians
19
"It's the clothes, not you."
8
This is a public service announcement
5
A well-played "P.S."
5
"If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault."
February
24
In Defense of Wine
15
The poem the Adorable One slipped into your pocket
13
"I'd recommend they get off their computers."
8
On WASPiness, part 2
January
24
Bellowing about other people
23
On Earnestness Part 2
21
On Earnestness
15
Dress shopping without the "W" word
13
Nuptial Numbers

2009

December
6
Valentino on socializing
November
25
You know you're from San Francisco when...
15
Love con leche
1
Autumn in New York
October
11
Homecoming
11
Fitzgerald on the Fall
September
30
On WASPiness
27
Real talk from David Byrne
20
DVF on marriage and the woman across the room
16
You don't say?
August
31
Things I Used to Buy That I Don't Love Anymore
24
Macro-micro-blogging
11
Flying over everything
10
Bon Appétit
9
Amerika!
July
16
California here we come
June
8
Eternal Spring of San Francisco
5
Media parties and the vodka fizz
1
Let them eat Tweets
May
29
Real talk from Michelle Obama
17
Journalism school "after newspapers"
April
26
The kind that likes to grow up
20
Ice cream wishes and ceiling fan dreams
March
23
A bug's eye view on African aid
16
Steel-tipped real talk
2
'We didn't sit around looking at screens.'
1
Liz Smith on the Internet
February
11
The shallow rivers roar, the deep are still
January
24
Ladies' Choice
14
Kate Hudson sounds like fun
11
Real talk from John McLaughlin

2008

December
15
Do it before you discard it
11
HGB on cold season
7
On Farting Around
November
30
On Information
23
To my Twenties
17
Cherish the [Pandora] joy
9
Chic Chicago
October
11
The Sign*
September
30
Real talk from Maria Bartiromo
13
On language
3
Alec Baldwin on wanderlust
August
31
Tell me something good...
30
In good form
24
On fast fashion and good buys
10
Summertime
July
17
Zuckerberg vs. Thoreau
17
Feed me
June
14
Certain gentlemen of other days...
11
Keeping up with the Ephrons
8
Thomas Wolfe on travel
May
15
Progress
11
(Self) help yourself
7
Wine, pricing, and perception

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