To Every Woman Who Ever Held Her Ground There is something about Scotland that does not let you go. The light falls differently there — sideways and silver, catching the edges of things: the grey stone of old castles, the…
Letters From Her Across Time: Two Letters From the Scottish Highlands A Letter from Mary Queen of Scots & A Letter from Black Agnes of Dunbar
Letters From Her Across Time
A Letter from Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel — To Every Woman Who Ever Dressed for Someone Else There is an apartment at 31 Rue Cambon in Paris. You may have seen photographs of it — the mirrored staircase, the Coromandel lacquer…
Letters From Her Across Time A Letter from Marie Antoinette — To Every Woman Who Was Told She Was Too Much
There is a palace at Versailles. You may have seen it in photographs — the Hall of Mirrors stretching endlessly, chandeliers catching the light of a thousand candles, gold gleaming from every surface, gardens so perfectly arranged they seem to…
Letters From Her Across Time A Letter from Jacqueline Kennedy —
To Every Woman Who Is Holding Herself Together While the World Watches Series · Letter No. II There is a photograph taken on the 22nd of November, 1963. She is still wearing the pink suit. In the hours after the…
Some women in history were so far ahead of their time that the world didn’t know what to do with them. So it tried to contain them instead. Elisabeth of Austria — known to the world as Sisi — was…
Postcard from a Hotel Room: Learning to Rest Without Guilt
There’s something about a hotel room that feels like a pause. Not home. Not quite a destination. Just a quiet space in between. I sat there longer than I planned to. The curtains were half open, letting in a…
