Nick and I wanted to do a little trip for Christmas and decided Seattle was far enough away to feel special, yet close enough to not get cau...

It's kind of sad that my last post here in 2011 was about getting a new work bag to celebrate my new job and then I was not to be heard ...

Nick and our friends Andy and Norm went skydiving the other day. Here is some of the useful information that Nick had to share after the ...

Last Sunday, Nick went skydiving with our friends Norm and Andy . None of them had ever done it before then. They booked a time slot to do ...

Instead of conventional souvenirs, when I travel, I like to visit the local arts and crafts stores and pick up little knick-knacks that I c...

Since Charles Schulz spent a great deal of his life in Santa Rosa, there are tributes to him and the Peanuts cast all over the city. "...

I visited my parents' house last month and while I was there, I rediscovered my stamp collection that I saved from when I was a little k...

A couple weekends ago, Nick and I went up to Sonoma County to celebrate our one-year anniversary. If you're looking to do something a li...

Despite all the hullabaloo about French pastries, the most beautiful bakery I visited during my trip was in London. Ottolenghi was a deligh...

After writing about some of the clothes I bought in London , a reader asked that I write about Nick's finds as well. Nick got two new sh...

The first night that Nick and I were in Paris, we stumbled into one of Georges Larnicol's shops , simply because it happened to be open....

Nick and I were lucky enough to have great weather the day we visited Versailles. I think that if the weather is wet and dreary, there'...

Amongst posh boutiques and little bakeries on Marylebone High Street there is a restaurant where even in the rain, there is a queue outside ...

In Paris, it seemed that little fresh food markets popped up in every neighborhood. I am so jealous of this and desperately wish there could...

Several people who have seen my trip photos on Facebook have asked me about the clothes I am wearing in them. It seems that my friends are m...

One of my favorite things to do when traveling to a foreign city is to go to the local open-air markets. To me, this is a fun way to see a p...

There's been a stereotype that French people are snooty and rude, and that they are unfriendly towards Americans; I was a little bit wo...

I'm back from my exhausting but fun vacation in London and Paris. I'm still sorting through all the photos and collecting my thought...

Over the weekend, Nick and I attended the 2011 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am . Apparently the group that invited us is the only spon...