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...
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...
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/
May I present dressing for for dinner last Sunday night. (Also a background photoshopped to remove mess. You’re welcome.) I wore the never-fail Dries van Noten with the Harwood coat my sibling...
https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/02/cleaning-up-okay-or-saturday-morning-at-941am/
I have ignored eyebrows for decades. “Face-framing,” I’d say, “What the heck, what do we need to frame, per se?” Made it through the 90s without plucking a thing. But here Flo suggeste...
Happy Lunar New Year! Specifically, Happy Lunar New Year in Mandarin! On top of wishing you well, I wanted to ask, how do you extend greetings for holidays you don’t celebrate, in languages ...
https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/02/how-to-give-celebratory-greetings-or-saturday-morning-at-945am/
I was going to write about wisdom. Then hoses of our newly-installed washing machine started to drip water and that was a whole drama. Resolved now. Back to original plan. Do you all understand w...
https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/02/the-comfort-of-time-or-saturday-morning-at-959am/
This past week I drove to Marin County for lunch with a writer I’d met on a fiction course. It was so fun. I just love people. What miracles! Anyway, the outing warranted putting on actual clot...
https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/01/the-enduring-value-of-a-scarf-or-saturday-morning-at-720am/
Do you separate your life into “eras?” I know Taylor Swift believes, but how about we the somewhat-less-famous? Maybe because 67 is a lot of years to imagine separately, I do. In fact, I feel...
https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/01/never-say-never-or-saturday-morning-at-902am/
There’s a concept, in fiction, of “writing yourself into the story.” Doesn’t mean writing about yourself per se, more like writing a bunch of detail that the readers won’t need or even ...
https://lisacarnochan.com/2024/01/new-year-and-new-washing-machine-or-saturday-morning-at-1016am/
It’s winter in California. There’s frost on my neighbor’s roof most mornings and the leaves have fallen from our alder, leaving only spring green catkins. Time to turn inwards; time to get ...