A Sparkling Vintage Life

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

There are many beautiful version of All Things Bright and Beautiful, my favorite Thanksgiving hymn. This is the version I remember best from my childhood: All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made...

The Paradise: Shopgirl Makes Good

I’ve just finished watching The Paradise, a PBS miniseries set in a late-Victorian-era British department store. I wanted to watch the whole series before writing about it, in case it disappointed me like the earlier Mr. Selfridge, a different PBS series set in...