WHAT A TRIP

WHAT A TRIP

6 May 2023 ♦
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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 of the ‘Real Housewives’? It’s…
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THAT’S MY GIRL

THAT’S MY GIRL

6 January 2023 ♦
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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…
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TANGIER | FAVE FIVE

TANGIER | FAVE FIVE

21 April 2021 ♦
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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…
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COTSWOLDS: Broadway Tower

COTSWOLDS: Broadway Tower

6 March 2021 ♦
STORIES
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,…
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SAINT-MALO | FAVE FIVE [the best is free]

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

24 February 2021 ♦
DON’T MISS
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.…
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STYLE MOMENT | Tangier

STYLE MOMENT | Tangier

6 February 2021 ♦
STYLE MOMENTS
“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
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EYE ON DESIGN | Glasgow School of Art

EYE ON DESIGN | Glasgow School of Art

16 June 2018 ♦
STORIES
In 1896, a junior draftsman named Charles Rennie Mackintosh won a competition to design a new building for the Glasgow School of Art. The building was completed in 1909, heralding the birth of a new style in 20th-century European architecture and establishing Mackintosh as a design influencer in the Arts…
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TRAVELING SOLO [Tricks of the trade]

TRAVELING SOLO [Tricks of the trade]

19 March 2018 ♦
STORIES
I’m a woman and I travel the world. Alone. (With some occasional exceptions.) Alone, I’ve stayed in a stone cottage on top of a mountain in Tuscany, an 11th-century fort on an island off the coast of Brittany, an estancia in Argentina, and a riad in Tangier. Alone, I’ve shopped…
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