In December of last year, I surveyed all of you – my faithful readers – soliciting feedback about the site and many of you requested that I share more hairstyling tips. And since hair styling, like so many other things, is a skill best taught through demonstration, as opposed to still photographs, I’ve decided now
We all know, either intuitively or from careful observation, that a great hostess turns a party into a memory. But how – exactly – does she do it? For answers, I sat down with my dear friend and Hostess Extraordinaire, Lauren Bender. Lauren and her husband are extremely generous and gracious hosts. They frequently open
As this is my final post for the year, it seemed fitting to take a look back and assess what the year has taught me. There are too many lessons to cram into a 1000-word post, but the central theme of the year has been CHANGE. Since my third child was born in 2011, my
The first two-thirds of my family’s summer was cannibalized by my 10 year-old son’s baseball tournaments. Â The tournaments started with Thursday night games and ran through the entire weekend, sometimes even continuing through Monday or Tuesday of the following week. In summers past, our weekends were spent at the beach or swimming all day with
When my husband and I were dating, it was extremely important to him that I be able to handle his annual waterskiing trips to the California delta – a 700,000 acre maze of tributaries, sloughs and islands, located east of the San Francisco Bay Area, stretching nearly 50 miles from Sacramento south to Tracy. I
