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kate granado

Lifestyle

The miracle of ageless friendships

September 13, 2020

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other….. Audrey Hepburn

I always knew my life would improve with age – and it has. When I reflect on these words I can see that it was much more of an intuitive belief, something I just knew. This belief resided below the surface, like an interior safe room, which as a young woman…

Lifestyle

The Vegetable Road Trip

September 7, 2020

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious when food is shared…..Ruth Reichl

selective focus of green leafed plant

It’s exhausting when you think about how far food has to travel to reach our tables. When I think of Farm to Table I’m thinking a maximum of a couple of days…

Style

Any One Wanna Go Shopping

August 31, 2020
blue and brown tote bag

The joy of dressing is an art…..John Galliano

For me, this was a pretty tough week. Between the RNC, my daily reading of the New York Times, and The Washington Post, I was ready to throw myself off the sidewalk. I must have begun three blog post and I deleted all three. The words were just not happing for me. There was a time…

Design

The color of the Year…Says Who?

August 16, 2020

Life is about using the whole box of crayons….RuPaul

I thought we would start with the 2020 “Color of the Year.” According to Pantone(Color Institute), it is Classic Blue #19-4052. The Pantone Color System is the Queen of universal color matching. Originated in 1963 to help solve the complicated color matching problems in the printing…

Lifestyle

How to be an Ageless Beauty

August 9, 2020

I like to think we age from the inside out – like an exquisite, finely woven fabric. When you view the reverse side the pattern is similar – but there is now a subtle beauty to the design and color, it is softer – more lived in.                Kat Graham.  Writer

I have always been inspired by ageless beauty. Perhaps…

Wellness

The Boomerang Effect of Kindness

August 3, 2020

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” — Mark Twain

A Kind Man

A few years ago, my husband, Arthur said “I want to be a kinder person.” I had never thought of Arthur as anything other than kind. On our first couple of dates, as I’m probing for intel on his friends and…

Style

Fashion in the time of the pajama syndrome

July 26, 2020
photo of blue crew-neck tops

Fashion is the armor to survive everyday life……Bill Cunningham

This might seem like an odd time to talk about fashion, but on the other hand, it’s a conversation that might be perfect for our lives at the moment. How you may ask? There are many on WFH Zooming every day with co-workers. And depending on where you live, those continuing to stay in…

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