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Turkey Miscellany—Conroy-Meermin-and Stein Mart Serpentining
*It’s Sunday morning December 1st. I began this little ditty on Thanksgiving morn but never got around to finishing it. I’m back in Bethesda now and LFG is again with her mom so the deafening silence...
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Well there is Marrakesh and all of the associated sentient triggers there. Sounds, textures, and colors in the souks. Those great kilim and other colorful textiles house slippers that seem like just...
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Flannel, the Alamo, and Hickory Hill Part One
It’s flannel time again. And nobody wore them as well as Fred Astaire.I offer this erudite sartorial nugget as testimony to the fact that this blog used to be about clothes and to a great degree, about...
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He Wrote Me Back...R.I.P. Tom Wolfe
I'd just missed him at Alan Flusser's atelier one afternoon. And a few years before that I fingered one of his white jackets on a hangar at Vincent Nicolosi's flourescently intimidating workshop.I...
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Britches Bespoke…Clothing for Life
There’s something tasty on the horizon and it’s about damn time!One of the highlights of 2018 for me so far—other than the got my life back spine surgery—is my new acquaintance with Rick Hindin. Rick...
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Britches Bespoke D.C. This Week …Don’t Miss It!
I recently shared the great news about Britches Bespoke, the Mark Rykken—Rick Hindin tasty collaboration. Well I’m happy to report that the Britches Bespoke inaugural trunk show in New York was an...
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College
She was nine years old when I wrote my first story. And I just spent some time reading through my earliest tales as well as the reader comments. I reveled in those times and I turned out stories with...
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Ok...A Text Reply from This Morning
Thx. for tapping in. Ok is relative, right?So I'm not ok. By my definition. But it's good because I'm present and in the moment and dialed-in to what I deem not ok. And there's a woman here. Still...
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Alan Flusser on Richard Merkin
My Richard Merkin self portrait hangs above me as I cobble together this little update. I sent Carrie Haddad payments on it for about six months before it rolled in to Casa Minimus. It's one of my...
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Father's Day 2020
It's amazing how time flies. I wrote this story almost ten years ago and my goodness what a decade it has been for me since. My little daughter LFG who ultimately became as much of a focus here as...
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Yoga
I honestly didn’t know whether I could even remember the password for this blog. I haven’t visited here since I reposted that story about my father a couple of years ago. Like those who routinely read...
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