- Boxwalla’s Holiday Gifting Guide 2023It's the ✨Holiday Season✨. The increasing coldness of the weather is surpassed only by the warmth of gatherings around the...
- Bits and Bobs VIII“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald The above quote...
- African Botanics: The Rhapsody of a Summer DreamEarlier this year, we featured two incredible products from African Botanics, a brand that's been a favorite with both our...
- The Nobel Prize for Literature 2023 SpeculationThe Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded on October 5. Last year, we speculated over on Lit Hub on...
- Bits and Bobs VIIStarting off with this August's Beauty box which features one of my favorite skincare brands of all time, the mvp,...
- The Impossible Struggle to be the Perfect Woman: Štefica Cvek by Dubravka UgresicThe titular character in the patchwork novel Štefica Cvek in the Jaws of Life, the first story in Lend Me...
- Bits and Bobs VIThis month is bookended by two 'supermoons', one on the 1st and the other on 30th August. What's a supermoon...
- (A Bumper) Bits and Bobs VIn March 1959, the world was introduced to Barbara Milicent Roberts, better known as Barbie. In that first year, 300,000...
- Dubravka Ugresic and the Perils of Being an Outspoken WomanAnti-war feminist writer and scholar Dubravka Ugresic (1949-2023) was one of Yugoslavia's most esteemed writers before the disintegration of her...
- Bits and Bobs IVThe iconic Alicia Keys song reimagined 20 years later with a 74-piece global orchestra of women of color—simply divine. Cherries...
- Lovinah: the Joyous World of Supernatural Skincare"Magical" is a word that can be applied to Lovinah in general. Not only are its creations incredibly effective, they...
- Bits and Bobs IIII reread this old piece by Marie-Louise Parker which, like the best writing, gripped me afresh with its imagination and...