This year has been filled with tender moments and delicious surprises.  Here are a few of the most recent.

December Reads:

How To Be Parisian Wherever You Are:  Love, Style and Bad Habits

The Heart of the World:  An Introduction to Contemplative Christianity

The Last Runaway Slave

The Curious Calling

Men Explain Things to Me

Blogs of Wonder:

The Vivienne Files

French Word-A-Day

The Magazine I Ask After:

oh comely

Closet Lust:

Eileen Fisher

Marlowe

Surely not necessities:

A wearable sleeping bag — in black

Joan of Arctic boots

Miscellaneous Enchantments:

Friendly Women of Evanston

Nina Wellness Coach

The Wine Goddess