Today’s gift guide is rather unorthodox since I’m sharing seven gifts I’ve ALREADY received but wish I’d received sooner. Why? To save you from that gnawing frustration you have when you get a gift so marvelous, so magnificent, and so god-damn useful…
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Every quarter I find myself rotating my purses and daily essentials to meet my seasonal needs. And as the temperatures drop in fall, my easy spring and summer essentials are replaced with a complicated array of products designed to fortify me…
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For almost exactly a year I’ve been itching to stay at the Virgin Hotel. Last October I attended the first preview dinner for the newly announced hotel. Everything was still completely under construction and yet Head Chef Rick Gresh (and his…
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“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.” — Epictetus
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Every season I love to change-up my routine and my daily essentials, adapting them to suit the weather and my own lifestyle. Spring brings a beautiful lightness to the Windy City and nothing compliments that more than a wardrobe of…
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Sed Bona, a snippet of the Latin phrase “Pauca Sed Bona“, means “quality over quantity”. It means that having more isn’t always best. It means empowering yourself to do fewer but better, more beautiful, and more fruitful things
