Neighbors in High Heels, and Other Petty Complaints
I love to travel. For all the usual reasons. See new sites, eat new food, breathe new air, meet new people, walk new streets, take new pictures, hear a new language, think new thoughts, buy new tchochkes.Traveling takes us out of our comfort zone and demands that we adapt to a new longitu

Guest Blogger: An Ant Crossing the Road
By John Ford I’m not sure where you stand on the issue of police officers versus flag men at road details, but this story may support your view either way. On a recent Monday, I w

Why No Nobel Prize in Fashion?
The Nobel Prize Committee has been handing out awards like candy this past week -- and that was quite a sugar-coated jaw breaker for Barack Obama -- but I just don't understand why there is never a recipient from the fashion world.That said, it has been quite a year for N

Spring Break Part I
The only people who would think it was a good idea to let three 17-year old suburban high school girls go to Ft. Lauderdale for spring break would be other 17-year olds.But somehow our parents -- maybe because they needed a spring break themselv

Where Has All The Time Gone?
When I was a senior in high school, the quote I used under my yearbook picture paraphrased the great English poet, John Milton:"How soon hath time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on its wing my one and seventeenth year..."Believe me, I was no wise-before-my-time teenager -- I was a party girl who lived in the moment, as children are wont to do, thinking little of the past and nothing of the future. But I must have figured out that my life was going to change very fast once I ran out that door with my diploma. And it did.In that vein, and for yo