I admire wine. I can relate to wine. When you think of wine, you may picture a vineyard, peaceful, lush and fecund. But here’s the thing – to make a really good wine, the vines have to struggle and fight their way through rocky, craggy soil until they emerge – rich...
If you’re going to age, which we all do, it’s better to age as a French woman because the French do not find it so offensive. French beauty comes from within and is the outward expression of the richness of life and the manifestation of savoring life moment to moment....
If beauty is only skin deep, shouldn’t you take really good care of your skin? You will never see a French woman in one of those drastic “before makeup/after makeup” slideshows. She accepts and is comfortable with her own face. She does not try to make herself look...
My husband and I were married in a chateau just outside of Paris which was the former home of Anne Boleyn’s aunt, now home to dear friends whom we toast every 11th of April. It was a symbolic (not legal) ceremony, which we later formalized complete with license, name...
I have my friends and family fooled. They think that all my parties and dinners are done effortlessly. The truth is, I’m a neurotic over-planner. Everything is planned days or weeks in advance – the menu and the to-do list worked down to an hour-by-hour strategy. I am...
I believe the answer to the French paradox – the phenomenon of eating bread, butter, wine and other bits of heaven and not getting fat – lies largely in their relationship with food. Eating is more about experience than intake. You will NOT find...
