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  • WHAT A TRIP

    WHAT A TRIP

    Read my new book WHAT A TRIP on Kindle Vella. In one day, Jo loses her daughter (to college), her husband (to a hot young chick), and her job (effective immediately). Jo’s best friend Carly talks her into joining a ‘life-affirming’ tour to India. For enlightenment, of course. Who knew they’d be traveling with clones…

  • THAT’S MY GIRL

    THAT’S MY GIRL

    Read my book, a chapter at a time, on Kindle Vella. Jade Pearce has a perfect life. She’s a successful event planner with an exquisite NYC apartment and zero emotional complications. Her orderly world is thrown into chaos when she becomes guardian to a prickly, blue-haired teenager named Zoe. Equally unhappy with the arrangement, Zoe…

  • TANGIER | Rockin’ the Kasbah

    TANGIER | Rockin’ the Kasbah

    I was in Spain, a mere hop, skip, and a jump from Tangier. That was a temptation I could not resist. So I hopped the bus to Tarifa, skipped down to the port, and jumped onto the ferry, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, to Africa. Ahoy, Africa. I landed in Tangier and set off to…

  • TANGIER | FAVE FIVE

    TANGIER | FAVE FIVE

    Tangier. My fave five. (You can get the mother lode of things to do in any guidebook—these are my personal favorites.) 1. LE SALON BLEURue de la Kasbah (entrance at 71 rue Amrah)From the rooftop terrace of Le Salon Bleu (photo at top) is the stunning view over the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain. The charming restaurant…

  • Style Moment: St. Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold

    Style Moment: St. Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold

    “Still round the corner there may wait / A new road or a secret gate / And though I oft have passed them by / A day will come at last when I / Shall take the hidden paths that run / West of the Moon, East of the Sun.” J.R.R Tolkien

  • COTSWOLDS: Broadway Tower

    COTSWOLDS: Broadway Tower

    When I realized I was in the vicinity of the Broadway Tower as the sun was setting, I hightailed it down the narrow road and screeched to a stop alongside the adjacent field. I confidently made my way across the field, heading to the tower. Excitedly, I ran up to the gatekeeper, an old man…

  • SAINT-MALO | FAVE FIVE [the best is free]

    SAINT-MALO | FAVE FIVE [the best is free]

    One of my favorite places in the world is Saint-Malo, a town in Brittany, on the northwest coast of France. I first went to Saint-Malo for my own personal writer’s retreat—to work on a novel I was writing. I was enchanted the minute I set foot “intra muros”—inside the walls. A few months later I…

  • Photo Album: A Cotswolds Day

    Dreaming of my time in the Cotswolds. No words necessary.

  • TANGIER: Dar Nour Guesthouse

    TANGIER: Dar Nour Guesthouse

    After rockin’ the Kasbah to find it, I opened the door into the charming Dar Nour Guesthouse. The “House of Light” is actually five houses connected by passageways and flights of stairs leading to its seven guest rooms and the rooftop terraces that overlook the Bay of Tangier on one side and the city on…

  • STYLE MOMENT | Tangier

    STYLE MOMENT | Tangier

    “Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don’t proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.” -William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) American novelist, essayist, social critic, and painter