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Modus Vivendi
Wanderlust, Peopling, Chucks, Fit Bits, Get Out Innit, & Nom Nom
Farvel
My son just left for Europe. Thought you’d enjoy a timeline of his departure: Three months before: Him: I’m going to Europe. Me: Really? When? Him: I’m not sure. Me:
Literati
Book Club
No Books For You
So let me be clear. I did not go into Red Barn Adult Books to purchase anything, or to make freaky friends. I went only to satisfy my morbid childhood
Toys R Us
One of my favorite childhood memories was the occasional Sunday trip with my parents to the Berlin Farmers Market. They’d load us in the station wagon, and we’d sail down
Lux Redux
Le Chic, Object of Lust, Hot Girl Stuff
Chrysalis Collective
Suddenly…
Hey, do you know that feeling of hitching up a long skirt so you don’t fall on your face when walking upstairs, and then you immediately become a wretched yet
SRFS UP
Vanity plates are so….vain. And while I myself AM vain, I see no need to broadcast my vanity to cars idling in back of me. So when my lease ended
KEVIN!
I like the scene in the movie “Home Alone” when Kevin is walking home with his groceries, and the bottom rips out of the grocery bag, spilling the groceries on
Sword Fight
Three equal length boxes arrived at the house last week. Narrow, about three feet long. I pondered. Golf clubs? They were addressed to my oldest, so I texted him from
Hoowah
The most hate mail I ever received as an op-ed writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer was when I said I liked the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. Yowza, did I get
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Just Buzz
Culture, Trends & Media
AI
Most accurate redundancy ever recorded in human history: Cast of “The View” discussing artificial intelligence.
Duck Tape
Who was the first person who decided to put cutesy cartoon characters on duct tape? If you ask me, it makes it more sinister, not less. Why is duct tape
Going Mobile?
Thank God the sun is back out. What with this stormy weather all I’ve wanted to do is watch AMC Fright Fest, read decorating magazines, light pumpkin candles and drink
Mishaps and Foibles
Thank you for your supportive thoughts and kind words, I found my key fob. It was in the trunk of my car. I mean, what are the odds? Give me
Ceviche?
(I received an email from a reader that my humorous posts about my sons are her favorite. This one’s for you): So I had this presentation on Monday, right? Since
Har Har
Has the world gone mad? Listen, there’s no way anyone is going to goad me into blogging about Afghanistan. Even if I had the intellectual acumen to tackle that subject,
Mary Oves, Founder of The Chrysalis Collective
I am Mary Oves, formerly The (Not) It Girl. If you want to know why I called myself that, please look back in my archives at my very first blog in August of 2020, and it will make sense.
As a widow and a mother of boys, please know that I do not suffer fools. So if your panties get twisted into a wad easily, I have one of two suggestions: one, go watch the Hallmark Channel, because this may not be the space for you. Two, it is the space for you, because you want to email me and tell me off. I love that. Feel free. I promise to email you back and send you free stuff all the time.
The choice is yours.
I decided to enlist the help of my dear friend Jennifer (5sistersandadog.com) to help me build a website that reflected all sides of me.
Me to Jennifer at lunch: Are you telling me that you can build me a website where I discuss my favorite deodorant on one day and the metaphors in “Allegory of the Cave” the next?
Jennifer: Yes. Pass the creme brûlée.
And with that The Chrysalis Collective was born.
My little fam:
Thomas was my late Hub, he passed in 2017.
John and Dustin are my twins, aged 23.
Tommy is my youngest, at 19.
They are my greatest work to date.
Coming Soon
A few of our FAVORITE things.
When you’ve found that perfect pant, lipstick, perfume. You just have to share.
chrysaliscollective.org
Writing Credits
I was first published at the age of 18 years old, in the local paper in my sleepy little Italian hamlet in south Jersey. I think it was a piece about the Mt. Carmel festival. Since then, I have taken every writing opportunity that has been offered to me. The following is my list of publishing and blogging credits. Not as many as some, but more than most, I think.
And dozens of smaller publications. You wanna read old stuff, google me, it’s all there.
Coming in 2022 . . . Speaking Engagements!!
Mary is represented by Bradley Communications.
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