The second in our ClaimingLife series on slow living around the world There’s a word the French use that doesn’t quite translate — flânerie. The art of wandering without destination, of moving through a day as though it belongs…
How to Live Like an Italian :The Art of La Dolce Vita
The first in a new ClaimingLife series on slow living around the world There’s a phrase the Italians use — dolce far niente — the sweetness of doing nothing. Not laziness. Not wasted time. A deliberate, unapologetic pause in a…
Helena Rubinstein: The Polish Girl Who Refused an Ordinary Life and Built a Global Empire
From the cobbled streets of Kraków to the glittering salons of Paris, New York, and London, Helena Rubinstein proved that courage, determination, and vision can change the course of a woman’s life forever. A Young Girl with Bigger Dreams Long…
Walking in the Shoes of Icons Edition One: Marie Curie Post One — Part Two
The Discovery That Changed the World There are moments in history when everything changes. Not all of them happen in palaces, parliaments, or on battlefields. Sometimes they happen quietly. Sometimes they happen in a cramped laboratory, in a drafty shed,…
Walking in the Shoes of Icons Edition One: Marie Curie
Grief, Glory, and the Courage to Continue Some stories would end with the discovery. The breakthrough. The recognition. The moment the world finally notices. Marie Curie’s story did not. The years that followed brought both extraordinary triumph and devastating loss….
NEW RELEASE · WOMEN’S FICTION · KINDLE ‘ She Who Came Back to Herself’
A new story — and the woman behind it By Amanda Scully · ClaimingLife.com · June 2026 There is a story I needed to write. Not because I planned it, but because it arrived — the way the truest things…
LETTERS FROM HER ACROSS TIME- A Letter From Catherine Deneuve From Her Paris Apartment, Saint-Germain-des-Prés
To Every Woman Who Refused to Disappear There is an apartment in Paris. It is in Saint-Germain-des-Prés — the Left Bank, the literary quarter, the neighbourhood where the twentieth century was argued into existence over coffee and the particular…
A Letter From Brigitte Bardot — From La Madrague, Saint-Tropez
To Every Woman Who Was Brave Enough to Walk Away From Everything — And Choose Herself Instead There is a small white house with blue shutters on the Route des Canebiers in Saint-Tropez.It sits right on the water. The Mediterranean…
An imagined literary series inspired by the lives, aesthetics and surviving histories of remarkable women.
Letters From Her Across Time To Every Woman Who Was Born to Live More Beautifully Than the World Expected There is a photograph. You may have seen it. Most people who have seen it never quite forget it. A rooftop…
