I love making Friday night feel like the weekend has really started. In fact, if I do it really well, it almost feels like a 3-day weekend. I guess it’s sort of a throw back to school days. Monday through Thursday was always after-school homework and chores, but...
Need to drop a few pounds fast? The French woman knows how to eat in a sustainable way to manage her weight without diets and deprivation – all that’s covered in my book, Creating the French Metabolism: Eat, Drink, and Be Beautiful. But even a French girl needs to...
Recently I was at a meeting of women entrepreneurs, listening to a woman tell her story of going from losing her job and the difficulty of scraping by while raising her son as a single mom, to building a successful business that supports her comfortably and even...
We all have our superpowers. Mine, besides knowing what day something I’m expecting will show up in the mail and making ideal parking spots materialize, is being able to throw a meal together when there’s “nothing in the house,” even if guests show up unexpectedly. It...
My recent trip to Paris was cut short due to circumstances beyond my control – c’est la vie. But the one thing I was unwilling to eliminate from my planned Paris activities was my French baking class. I’ll admit it – bread baking has become a bit of an obsession for...
