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Summer Roses
One of the true joys of summer is when garden roses come into flower. You can't easily find garden roses in Manhattan, where I live during the week. The roses available in the city are mostly...
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The Pine Club's House Dressing Redux
Today I am reissuing a post that I put up several years ago about finding a bottle of salad dressing in the Siaconset Market on Nantucket from the legendary Pine Club of Dayton, Ohio.The Pine Club's...
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Words To Live By
I have recently returned to my regular, workaday life after spending two supremely pleasant weeks on holiday on Nantucket lolling about and having a delightful time. It was a lovely, restful vacation,...
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Oh, Those Devilish Velvet Slippers!
During our recent holiday on Nantucket, we were fortunate to be visited for several days by our friends Calista and John Littlefield. We're crazy about them. Their visit was a laughter-filled, boozy,...
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Introducing Basil
It is with pleasure that I introduce you, Dear Reader, to a new member of the Darling household. His name is Basil. He's really rather charming.Basil DarlingAs those of you who have lost a beloved...
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How Basil Got His Name
When naming our new pug we wanted to choose a name that was appropriately dignified, but that also had a playful quality to it, like the breed."My name is Basil, and I'm here to inform youhow to...
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A Reggie Roadtrip: Atlanta, Part I
It's been some time, Dear Reader, since I've done a "Reggie Roadtrip" post, and—as a number of you have noted recently—it has been some time since I've posted anything. Today's essay (the first of a...
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Count Your Blessings
One of the lessons that Reggie has learned while bumbling about on this planet is that it is useful to pause every once in a while and take stock of one's life. He believes spending a portion of such...
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Reggie Out & About: Cocktail Preview Party at Cove Landing
Well, Dear Reader, it has been rather a long time since I've posted an "Out & About" story here on Reggie Darling. While I've most decidedly been running around Manhattan and its environs these...
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Salted Butter, Please!
Yes, Dear Reader, I use salted butter. Because I like it.When I was growing up we didn't use unsalted butter in the Darling household. It would have never occurred to MD to use anything but salted...
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Reggie Out & About: Brian McCarthy Book Signing Party and the Irish Georgian...
Reggie is a social animal. He likes gadding about town and country, meeting up with friends and making new acquaintances. He finds it stimulating and, more often than not, amusing. And it is a...
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Reggie Throws a Dinner Party, Part I
Today's post, the first of two, discusses the planning and preparations for a dinner party that Boy and I hosted at Darlington House last weekend. I thought it might be of interest—at least to one or...
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Thanksgiving at Darlington House
I have much to be thankful for, Dear Reader. Every moment of every day.Sometimes in the rushed and frenzied world of obligations and deadlines that I live in, though, I forget to take a moment to...
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A Reggie Roadtrip: Atlanta, Part II
Today's post is the second part of my two-part series on Reggie and Boy's whirlwind visit to Atlanta, the Biggest, Boomingest City of the South. You can read the first part here.After an evening spent...
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Brussels Sprouts Redux
Today at the Farmers Market in the nearby town to Darlington I was pleased to find that fresh Brussels sprouts were still available, even though there is now a dusting of snow on the ground in the...
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Basil's First Darlington Christmas Begins . . .
Boy tells me that I am wasting too much time and too many images by posting on my Facebook page instead of here at Reggie. He thinks I've been neglecting you, Dear Reader.So I'm going to do something...
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Reggie Recommends, Again: Agraria's Bitter Orange Potpourri
I received a package the other day, Dear Reader, containing an unexpected and thoughtful gift from the owners of Agraria, a home fragrance company based in San Francisco. It was a box of their Bitter...
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Christmas Traditions at Darlington
Every family, however you define it, has its own Christmas traditions. At least those of us families who observe Christmas, which we do at Darlington House. I celebrate Christmas for the enjoyment of...
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It Is All Rather a Blur . . .
Christmas came somewhat late to Darlington this year. Not after the fact, mind you, as we observed the appropriate dates as they occurred on the calendar. No, I'm talking about when the psychology of...
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A Round Hill Reverie
Now that the madness of the Christmas season is over, Dear Reader, I'm planning on posting a series of essays that have been in my queue for some time. Today's post, a review of one of the Caribbean's...
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