Inspiration.

A collection of recent posts from around the web that have caught my attention lately:

-The Oprah Magazine's guide to great collections of short stories

-These tips for shopping at the farmers' market

-A how-to for more creative discipline--I love the idea of using the word devotion instead of discipline!

-This post from City Life Eats on eating while traveling for those of us with special diets or food allergies

-Tulips and Tea's Analiese guest posted about her style statement, organic creative, on the Style Statement blog

-A profile of Chef Chloe, who won the Food Network's cupcake challenge with her amazing vegan cupcakes! Check out some of her recipes here and here.

-This New York Times article about how the road to adulthood has been getting increasingly longer

-This column by the ever-so-fabulous Jen Lancaster on why New Jersey is the new black (Yay for my home state!)

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