I’m addicted to entertaining, to laying out a grand delectable feast for my best girlfriends and newfound friends. For the past week, I’ve been preparing for today’s clothing swap and I’m a bit nervous (update: the swap was an EPIC success!!!). Unlike regular parties, attendance is actually important and affects the balance of the [...]

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There’s no greater joy than gathering all your best girlfriends in one room for a day of clothing and conversation. A day when disparate crowds eddy and new friendships are forged. An afternoon when [...]

Believe me when I say that the chocolate chip pumpkin loaf has changed lives. I’ve been fixing this recipe for nearly two years and it’s been adapted by a local coffee and cookie shop, it’s united coworkers who couldn’t bear to be in the same room with one another, and it’s brought the stone-faced [...]

To purchase the delicious Pumpkin Pecan Butter from Williams Sonoma, click here. Also, Trader Joe’s has a divine option.
Dying to Try:
*Garden Web: an informative, user-generated forum where contributors submit their recipes from muffins to spreads to thumbprint cookies.
*Smitten Kitchen’s Pumpkin Butter and Pepita Granola
*Closet Cooking’s Pecan Crusted Pork Chops with Pumpkin Butter
*The Recipe [...]

From decadent flights of fancy to crepe suits and frenetic phone calls, to finding love (or yourself) under a blanket of stars, no one fragrance can solely encapsulate a woman’s life. Over the years I’ve adorned Angel, Tommy Girl, Pleasures, Issey Miyake, True Romance, Fresh’s Cannabis Rose and Allure — all markedly different fragrances, [...]

Blissful weather, a client meeting, strategizing with my team re: my new role, and off to lunch with my agent. This day is one worth savoring.

If you’re on a quest for the crown jewel of illumination, look no further than Diptyque’s Violette ($60). I’ve always been enraptured by the line’s distinct, subtle fragrances, which warm and fragrant your surroundings, and when my sweet friend Jamie opened the box of her luscious candle, I nearly passed out in her cubicle. [...]

Today I spent the day with my best friend. We celebrated my latest and possibly most auspicious life change to date — accepting a position at a company I respect, to do the kind of work I love, to be surrounded by people I truly admire. While we toyed of going out in our [...]

Am I mad for loving a damp, warm morning? To throw open all the windows and let the trickle of rain and autumn air, in? Those close to me know of my affection for water, for my innate need to be closer to water. There was a time I took an apartment by [...]

Rent, netflix, on-demand Brian de Palma’s Obsession, a nod to Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

Mornings are my best time. I savor the crisp chill, the sun’s hesitation on the horizon – a threat to the uninterrupted black sky, and the immense quiet. Rested and sharp, I find dawn is the best time to create, where words take form and shape like a wave swelling and collapsing leaving a [...]

Whether you’re sporting razor-edge style with zippered stilettos, evoking ladylike luxe with croc-embossed satchels in cool neutrals, or gallery gallivanting with slouchy studded bags in the season’s ultraviolet hues, the fall accessories collections at Saks Fifth Avenue offer covetable statements for every look. From the conference room to cocktails, we’ve got your covered. [...]

There are few scents which make me seize up and twitch uncontrollably (picture: turrets): vanilla, jasmine, lavender, sugared honey and… pistachio. I can’t even begin to articulate my affection for this sea-foam hued nut. A scoop of gelato sends me reeling – I start quoting Baudelaire, and all I want to do is wrap [...]

After a long day at the office, the idea of fixing dinner is exhausting. We reach for the thick bundle of take-out menus, and after an hour we have delivery remorse. After thirteen some odd years working for various corporations, I’ve learned a bit about cooking instant, healthy meals. It’s possible to be satiated [...]