This past month has been a delightful journey into the past with our Month of Classic Re-Posts. From the comment section, it looks like all y’all have enjoyed them as much as we have! In the meantime, we here at YLCF have been working hard behind the scenes this month to bring to the forefront [...]
first published on ylcf.org, April 26, 2006 read original comments here “I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas?” -Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines I’ve written about frumpy fashion. I’ve discussed the rhyming of comfy and frumpy. But [...]
first published on ylcf.org, July 26, 2007 read original comments here Asking for advice, a reader wrote: “It gets a little frustrating sometimes, knowing that he is the man I am supposed to marry, yet we can’t move forward with our lives and get married because we are both still in college.” Or because he [...]
Like most girls, I grew up with the dream of being a beautiful princess. Except, my image of femininity was less Sleeping Beauty or Snow White, more Queen Lucy of Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, and Josephine March. They were strong women who were far from being just ornamental: they had a passion, a calling—and [...]
“You know what they say,” people would tell me. “‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder’…” I’d smile, for in fact, it was the way I often comforted myself in those years of being hundreds of miles apart from the man I wanted to marry. “…Fonder for someone else!” They’d often add. Teasingly, of course. Yet [...]
