Year in review

A reflection on 2022 and why I’m actively choosing joy in 2023.

12 Posts from 2021 + Year in Review Instead of doing a roundup on the top posts of the year (because those are usually posts that weren’t published this year!), I thought I would go back through the Archives and share one post from each month of 2021. But first… Year in Review 2021 was …

Most Loved Items of 2021 There’s nothing like a little self-reflection at the end of the year. Today, I’m reflecting on the year in fashion in order to figure out what I used and loved most. I have done this kind of roundup before, but this year, I’m specifically not talking just about items I …

2021 Holistic Goals While I have scorned the idea of New Year’s Resolutions for most of my adult life, I have typically written down a set of goals with the aim of improving my life in some way. I often write those goals down in a blog post, and then check back at the beginning …

Blog Year in Review 2020 In January, StyleWise/Leah Wise will be 8 years old! Throughout those 8 years, I’ve: joined several (now defunct) blogger networks interviewed at least a dozen brand owners worked with at least 50 brands built up my affiliate marketing strategy thought about quitting my day-job (glad it didn’t work out) fired …

My state of the blog address for 2019.

Happy New Year! Last year, I wrote a post on my 8 Achievable Goals for the New Year as an experiment. I had not, historically, lived up to my resolutions, either because they were too daunting or somewhat inane. But I really put some thought into it last January – and made sure to frame …

Yesterday’s post was all about 2018’s top performing posts in general. Today’s post is about the top performing posts written this year. You can see that the posts that performed well this year are a little more varied in format and topic. Part of that has to do with the fact that posts that stay …

Just when I think that blogging is too demanding, I look over my Analytics and heave a sigh of relief.  Though some posts are situated firmly in current events, and therefore fade into the internet black hole in a few days, a number of them continue to carry weight year after year, providing a resource …

The Package Free Shop in New York, taken on my July visit Hey! Remember when I asked you all to take my annual Reader Survey? Sorry for never updating you on the results of that. Know that I’ve been referring to your short answers regularly as I plan posts. I’ll get into the details of …