There are rooftop views. And then there is THIS ROOFTOP VIEW. We arrived at The Peninsula Paris, rather on a whim. Translation: no reservations. It was a risk, and at first, I wasn’t sure it was one that paid off.  Case in point, my fake smile as I sat inside with no view because all the……

Visiting Champagne had been on my bucket list for a while. There’s just something about popping open a bottle of bubbly that makes the drabbest of days feel like cause for celebration. It is only about 100 miles from Paris, which makes this an easy day trip by car or train from the city. Since we only……

“I have to hand it to you kid. Most people come to Paris to fall in love. You came and got slapped.” -Mr. Big, Sex and the City I’ll be honest. I’ve never really gotten Paris. At least not in the way that I felt I should. We went eight years ago for only three nights over……

I swore a couple of years ago I was DONE with Palm Springs in the summer. FREAKING HOT is really the only way to describe it. But…our Oma needed help moving there last weekend, so we decided to make it a little 24 hour getaway to where else…the very fabulous legendary boutique hideaway known as the……

“AND FOR JUST A FLEETING MOMENT, A TINY WISP OF TIME THAT HUNG IN THE AIR LIKE FIREFLIES IN SUMMER SKIES, SHE WONDERED IF SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH HIM AGAIN.”- NICHOLAS SPARKS, THE NOTEBOOK We were long overdue for an east coast 4th, and as usual, it didn’t disappoint. We took the Southport Ferry over to Bald Head……

LA Nights, Above all the Lights My bestie Christi recently introduced me to the Friday Night Wine Tastings over at Barnsdall Art Park happening all summer long and it tops my list for how to spend those summer LA nights. For $30, Silverlake Wines presents a tasting of four selections from around the globe in……