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Eating Brooklyn

Of all the times I’ve been to NY I’ve never strayed across the bridge to visit Brooklyn…till this trip. And as it turned out, it was there that I found my favorite pizza joint and bakery. Who knew I would love Brooklyn Heights (from where you could get a great view of Manhattan) and DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge …

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A Welcome Present

Yep, that’s a huge rip in my suitcase after a short flight from DC to NYC. If the road can take that big of a toll on my poor luggage, I wonder what it’s doing to my nerves. But I choose the road so I’ve got to take the lumps and bumps that come with it. Plus this tweed toggle …

9/11

  So another 9/11 passes, and today on its 8th anniversary I can still clearly recall that Tuesday morning when a colleague called me from Toronto. I was already in my LA office, really early as usual, responding to client emails.  Back in those days I liked coming into the office while it was still dark outside. It meant I had a fighting chance …

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My City of Angels

  A sweet email from a Scottish reader reminds me what a great photographic opportunity I have right here in Los Angeles.  So while I anticipate my next trip to NY to visit my newest niece, I’ll just post pictures of my hometown as I find it here and there for a while.  The photos in today’s entry were taken appropriately enough …

Chanel and the City

I’ve been keeping this blog under wraps until I could find an event that would combine my two favorite pastimes (travel and fashion) and could be worthy of a mention. For those of you who have supported and followed me from my thread at tpf, I also want it to be all about Chanel. So welcome to my first attempt …