Caitlin, The 18-year-old in our house, finally flew back last night to college in Los Angeles. She just completed what could be the longest winter break in post-secondary education history. Kit (the nickname she gave herself in 7th grade) came home for Christmas an eon ago — on December 18, 2006. Her spring semester starts today. That’s FIVE WEEKS of holiday vacation.

Ted and I had harbored hopes she might land a seasonal job over the holidays. Ha. There was sleeping to do, and shopping sprees at Deseret Industries (AKA the “DI,” the LDS-Church owned thrift store, for those of you living outside the safe boundaries of Utah) and tea parties with friends at the delightful downtown Beehive Tea Room.

So this is the long-winded way of pitching Kit’s new blog, which she and her friend Holly designed over the past three weeks. They began with a shocking premise: that Salt Lake City actually has significant examples of cool fashion, which shows up all over metropolitan sidewalks, the fabulous City Library, art galleries and other nooks and crannies. Sometimes you just have to look a little harder than you might in Manhattan, L.A. or Paris. Or Boise.

The blog is chalk-full of real people, little blurbs about their fashion and a bit about life — of both the interview subjects and the blog masters themselves. As it turns out, Kit and Holly are also fine writers. Which makes the blog fun to read, too.

Of this girl I am proud, and I’ll say it loud.

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