Today, I spontaneously decided to walk into a spinning class at a gym I used to attend. Okay, let me not make it seem like "attend" means frequent, more like I would go once a week to a spinning class at this particular spot. I stayed away mostly because I...

Growing up in Miami, you rarely feel different or exotic looking. Miami is filled with so many different cultural groups that most people tend to fall into one category or another. My friend, Barb, who moved to Miami from a small Florida town, always felt different. She's tall, blonde and a WASP, something...

When I was a young teenager, I had an obsession with a brilliant poet named Allen Ginsberg. I used his words to get me through typical and not so typical teenage angst. His poetry was my manual which I used to validate my responses to the world. Through Ginsberg, I...

"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly." - Oscar Wilde

My friend Sonia is gorgeous. I met her when I asked to take her picture for my website, Haute Drop-Off.  She's beautiful in that symmetrical way in which some scientists claim attracts the...

Growing up, my mother dressed my brothers as if they were lounging on a yacht in Nantucket. The only difference was they were lounging on the roof of our Long Island house, throwing eggs at cars. Their wardrobe included Ralph Lauren Polo shirts with...

It has been said your own children teach you the greatest lessons. I agree. My sons teach me something new daily. In fact, my son Neal attempted to teach me how to knit yesterday. This ended with me throwing the knitting needles across the room while yelling, "It's easier when...

Oh how I love walking around different neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Mostly to scope the style of parents -- so unique, so diverse... and with all the vintage and secondhand stores, everyone has a chance to be one-of-a-kind. Thanks Brooklyn for sharing!

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Last week, I got an email from my husband linking to the USA Today article "Women's Ultra-Short Shorts Are on the Rise" (not sure why he was reading this article, but something to do with rising hemlines rising economy?). Not surprisingly, within the hour several friends had forwarded me the...