Letters from Bali

Ninety-Four Women Said the Same Thing About Their Clothes

I read all 1,185 reviews looking for something else and found this. Ninety-four women, across nine years, described the same experience, and nearly all of them attached the same second half to it. ...

The Photograph She Almost Didn't Send

On the messages that arrive with no question in them, and what twice a week for several years has taught me about what women are actually telling you when they send a photograph.

The Second Email

There are two kinds of messages that arrive after a box does. The first comes within a day. The second comes four months later, and it is almost never about the linen.

She Bought a Dress and Got Her Sunday Mornings Back

A note from my inbox this week, the kind of letter that makes the whole thing worth it.   I get a lot of email. Order confirmations I forward to my bookkeeper without reading, questions about sizin...