100 Ways to Have a Love Affair with Life

When it’s over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don’t want to wonderif I have made of my life something particular, and real.I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,or full of argument. […]
Frenchie Friday: Are You Possessed?

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. She was chic, confident, mysterious and slightly haughty. Who was this woman? She was who I followed into the Hermès store on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Wearing a pair of leather pants, a simple white blouse, her hair slightly messy and her makeup […]
Why This is Your Year of Grand Adventures and Wild Freedom

Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. I’ll start tomorrow. I’ll wait until next year. I don’t know what I want. I don’t have enough money. I’m not smart enough. I don’t know how. Why these excuses can feel real, they are complete […]
Frenchie Friday: My Valentine’s Gift To You + 10 Reasons Why Every Woman Must Go to Paris

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. The saying goes: “Spend time with people whose lives you admire.” I love this motto and think that if we follow it, we […]
Overworked? Overwhelmed? Over It ? . . . Try This More Luxurious Approach to Life!

I just spent an hour on the phone with a very dear friend of mine. She is a successful entrepreneur; bright and beautiful; and has a mindset that allows her to be unstoppable. While she could achieve just about anything she put her mind to, there is a lot of resistance in her life because […]
Wine, Horses and Paris: The Adventure of a Lifetime!

Do you think you can have what you want? It’s an important question to answer, because if you doubt that you can, you never will. Let me share a story with you. Over a decade ago, I remember feeling extremely overwhelmed and stuck in life. I’d wake up and ask myself, “Is this it?” I was floundering, resisting, constantly searching for […]