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STYLE MOMENT | Spice souk, Dubai
“Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.” -William Cowper (1731-1800) English poet
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LINK | Art in the Palm of her Hands: Interview with sculptor, Anne Ricketts
I have always found miniatures to be intriguing. There’s just something about teeny tiny versions of things that is utterly captivating. So when I happened upon the bronze sculptures of Anne Ricketts in the OK store in Los Angeles, I stopped in my tracks. As I held a diminutive foot in my hand, I thought…
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DUBAI | The souks
Remember the scene in the “Sex and the City 2” movie when SJP glides through the shadowy souk (wearing a full-length taffeta skirt, Dior t-shirt, and Manolos), amidst stalls that are draped with vibrant textiles and bursting with exotic merchandise? Well, that was the picture I had in my mind when I left the glitz…
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DUBAI | Magnificent metropolis
I’ve wanted to go to Dubai for a long time, so after days of worrying about snowstorms delaying my flight, a harrowing drive to the airport on roads slick with black ice, an altercation with the check-in agent about carrying on my suitcase (I won), I was at JFK airport, and I was JAZZED. The…
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STYLE MOMENT | Bangkok | Pat Khlong flower market
“What a lovely thing a rose is! Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life.” -Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Scottish writer. Happy Valentine’s Day from Thailand.
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Travel Tips | Don’t Leave Home Without
I’m packing for a trip to Dubai and Thailand (stay tuned for the blog posts to come!) and as I was gathering all my essentials, I thought it might be a good time to share my checklist. Here are my must-haves – they make the journey a lot easier, and a lot more organized. PRINTABLE…
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LOS ANGELES | Restaurant | POT
While I was working in Los Angeles, art directing Food Network show, “Daphne Dishes“, I got the opportunity to eat at some fabulous restaurants. POT, the latest venture from celebrated L.A. chef, Roy Choi, is a restaurant not to be missed. Choi’s meteoric rise to fame is like a movie script. Fired from a prominent…
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GUEST POST | Puglia, Italy | Anita Dore
One of the perks of writing a travel blog is that I hear from people around the world. Anita Dore is a designer and painter, living in Luxembourg. She and her husband, Dave, recently traveled to the region of Puglia, Italy, in the “heel of Italy’s boot.” It is the one part of Italy I…
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STYLE MOMENT | Narlai, India
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers.” – Pat Conroy (b. 1945) American author
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The pen is mightier than the sword
On January 7, 2015, Islamic militant gunmen killed twelve people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, presumably in response to controversial cartoons published by the magazine. Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker: “The French cartoonist Stéphane (Charb) Charbonnier liked to say, when jihadis repeatedly threatened to silence him, that he’d rather be…
