A self-confessed beauty product junkie, I spend a lot of money every year on items that I’m hoping are going to change my life. Although it hasn’t quite happened yet, there are some things that I’ve found on my quest that I’ve become loyal to, and that’s saying a lot, since I’m always, always searching [...]

So my very cool younger brother lives in a very chic NYC apartment. He designs shoes for a living but is an artist at heart and I mean it when I say that his coolness level cannot be touched. He travels between NYC, China & Italy monthly, with fairly regular pit-stops in places like France [...]

I have been fighting a war with my skin since I was a little kid. Twelve-years old, to be exact. That’s the age I was when I got my first pimple. I remember the day like it was yesterday. And over the years, I have had good skin, I’ve taken meticulous care of it for [...]

After a kind of emotionally draining Tuesday, I woke up this morning and decided that I deserved a treat. A treat to me usually entails a trip to the beauty floor of my local Neiman Marcus. After a breakfast out with my husband, I dropped him off at home and headed over to NM. For [...]

I am obsessed with eyebrows. It’s the first thing I notice on a woman (and sometimes on men, too). I blame this on my mother, she has her own obsession with eyebrows. My eyebrows, to be exact. Over the years I’ve heard every critique under the sun from her… “they’re too short, too long, too [...]

I am a sucker for beauty products. I keep lists, very detailed lists, of products I’d like to try. Summer in Texas is something I’m not sure I will ever get used to, and it’s been a challenge to find products that will help me make it through an entire day without feeling like a [...]

I love Target. Like really, really love it. So much so that back in the day, somewhere around 2005, my husband asked me to stop doing our grocery shopping there because every Monday morning, I would return from the Target with a new American Express charge for about $200. For groceries. For TWO PEOPLE. I [...]

I don’t think my husband has any idea what it takes to get an infant to sleep at night. If he did, then surely he would stop coming into her room while I am in the throes of nursing and rocking her down and ask me where the flashlight is because the dude from AT&T [...]

What a good day this was. After the hell of the last few (air conditioning leaking through the attic ceiling and down onto my farmhouse table in our dining room via a chandelier; flooding in our guesthouse & garage and the subsequent discovery of termites while the restoration crew was out there tearing out large [...]

I knew early on in my second pregnancy that I was having a girl. I just knew it. The give-away? It was the acne (this 3-product regimen by Murad was my lifesaver, I only wish I’d discovered it earlier on in my pregnancy), the crazy hair (this product by Kerastase became my other lifesaver) that [...]