After 40 nobody is young, but one can be irresistible at any age….Coco Chanel
Once a rebel. Always a rebel…Well, maybe not! Once a rebel. Always a free spirit. I think that is more apropos as we ‘mature.’ And that free spirit has shown through in each decade, especially in how we dressed and expressed ourselves. …
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us or we will find it not…Ralph Waldo Emerson
On my thirteenth birthday, my mother gave me a small wrapped present. I gleefully ripped the paper off expecting a piece of jewelry, maybe a necklace, a bracelet. No jewelry. Instead a small clear bottle of pink lotion. I quickly…
We all need a special place. Not so much to find balance at this time in our lives. But, a sanctuary in which to explore the terrain of our creative landscape…Annabelle Graham
What comes after the balancing act that we, as women, have been performing for years? Once the ‘balance beam’ of a hectic life, has been traversed where do we find ourselves? The pyramid…
Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory…unknow
I have this new habit. I enter a room with speed and determination, set on my course of retrieving something. And there in the middle of the room in this crevasse and whatever it was that I…
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future…Robert Peters designer
The word…
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other….. Audrey Hepburn
I always knew my life would improve with age – and it has. When I reflect on these words I can see that it was much more of an intuitive belief, something I just knew. This belief resided below the surface, like an interior safe room, which as a young woman…
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious when food is shared…..Ruth Reichl
It’s exhausting when you think about how far food has to travel to reach our tables. When I think of Farm to Table I’m thinking a maximum of a couple of days…
The joy of dressing is an art…..John Galliano
For me, this was a pretty tough week. Between the RNC, my daily reading of the New York Times, and The Washington Post, I was ready to throw myself off the sidewalk. I must have begun three blog post and I deleted all three. The words were just not happing for me. There was a time…
