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If I had posted this five years ago I’d be introducing you to a hidden gem. As it happens, the Bay Area has discovered West Marin so get here as soon as you can before luxury resorts arrive and...

https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/05/a-beautiful-discovered-but-not-yet-overrun-with-the-likes-of-me-place-to-visit-in-northern-california-or-saturday-morning-at-1030am/

All the tube-contained lip unguents I own. I use that tortured descriptor to exclude neither the necessary lip gloss, nor lipstick nor lip balms. Oh, and a pencil. Here’s a game, with lots of h...

https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/05/my-life-in-lipsticks-or-saturday-morning-at-751am/

I’ve started going to a gym again for the first time in 15 years. It’s crowded, prone to broken equipment, cheap, with really nice staff. I love it. And this is not a post to exhort you to do...

https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/05/back-to-the-clanging-of-weights-or-saturday-morning-at-837am/

The only piece of clothing I’m craving at the moment is a brand-new, no pilling, no fading, no sunscreen-bleaching-at-the-neck patterned t-shirt. Most recently in this category I’ve worn a Te...

https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/04/how-long-has-it-been-since-you-thought-about-paisley-or-saturday-morning-at-1026am/

WORK. This is the work of my son, in fact. This is a photo of Jonathan Anderson, of Loewe,  J.W. Anderson and many other inspirations of culture, and my son, Patrick Carroll. During Milan Design...

https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/04/an-exhibition-at-milan-design-week-or-saturday-morning-at-910am/

It was a relief to discover that my small and particular anxieties are not the center of the universe. Which is to say on Sunday I flew to Houston, picked up a rental car, drove three hours to Au...

https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/04/35230/

My front garden has always been a white-ish garden, ruled by the rose bed. Very polite; non-revelatory. Somehow, that’s changing. The roses are still here and the first one is blossoming. Hi li...

https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/04/front-garden-flowers-or-saturday-morning-at-948am/

This morning, another thought about aging.. How many of you follow The Gerontologist on Instagram? Recommended. A mix of videos of undaunted elders living with very high function, advice on careg...

https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/03/is-positivity-what-we-want-while-aging-or-saturday-morning-at-928am/

I know it’s only just Spring, but here in Northern California this season slips to summer like a silk veil disappearing around a corner. Which is to say, quickly. Thoughts turn to travel when t...

https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/03/what-are-your-travel-plans-this-year-or-saturday-morning-at-853am/

Older women. We consider time! We come to terms with our face in the mirror! We paint it! In the comments to the post about eyebrows MJ asked me for my feelings about Jones Road Miracle Balm. Hav...

https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/03/a-use-case-and-review-for-jones-road-miracle-balm-or-saturday-morning-at-908am/

One morning this week, it might have been Wednesday at 10:30, or maybe 10:37, I closed my computer, took it off my lap, lay it on the sofa right next me so I didn’t have to move and said, out l...

https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/03/on-the-enormous-delight-of-finishing-a-novel-or-saturday-morning-at-1040am/

In 2015, 2017 (which for some reason I can’t remember I didn’t recap here), and 2018, my husband, my kids spent a few nights at the Four Seasons Hualalai on Hawaii’s Big Island. Oh yeah, an...

https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/03/the-road-back-or-saturday-morning-at-1012am/