My Wardrobe, Myself

The intersection of clothing, emotions, and life

For the past decade-plus, I’ve been selecting a word or theme each January to help guide my life as I navigate my way through the year. Some of the words that I’ve chosen in the past include:  simplicity, joy, deliberate, balance, peace, essential, freedom, enough, less, and lightness. For 2023, I selected the word “clarity,” …

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I got a bit distracted with my last few posts (although I believe they were important ones), so it’s taken me longer to get around to sharing my 2024 word of the year and debriefing my theme from 2023. Although we’re already three months into the year, I actually selected my 2024 word on January …

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In my last post, I debriefed how I did with my 2022 word of the year, “lightness.” Although I didn’t experience as much growth as I’d hoped in terms of lightening my physical and emotional load last year, I did have important wins to celebrate. It’s all too common for many of us to look …

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Happy New Year, everyone! I hope that 2023 is off to a good start for you. Today’s post is the second to last of my 2022 reflections, which also included reviewing my wardrobe “benchwarmers,” “all-stars,” and good and bad purchases in recent weeks (and will include a review of my word for the year in …

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We’re now almost a month into the new year, so I’ll soon switch from reflecting back on 2021 to looking at my vision for my wardrobe and my life in 2022. But before I do that, I want to share some of the highlights from My Wardrobe, Myself over the past year. In today’s essay, …

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