I recently spent a series of afternoons digging through closets at my parents’ house, searching for my sisters’ and my […]
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I recently spent a series of afternoons digging through closets at my parents’ house, searching for my sisters’ and my […]
Ten days into shelter-in-place orders after my kids’ schools closed, my family and I gathered around the table, staring at […]
By Jacqueline Antonovich
A wise woman once remarked, “We are living in a material world and I am a material girl.” And while this ode to consumption may have been referring to the procurement and enjoyment of luxury items, I think Madonna may have been on to something – though perhaps not in the way she intended. You see, over this past summer I had an unintentional, but deeply meaningful, love affair with . . . material culture.