In honor of Mother's Day, an ode to my little one:

I feel terrible pangs of guilt every time I leave him.

When I went away for a week, I brought his picture with me and used it as a bookmark, cooing over it multiple times per day....

Over the last few months, I've received at least a phone call a week from someone offering to take me out for a meal in exchange for some advice. I always accept because: so many people have been kind enough to do the same for me; I always learn something...

I shop for a living. I run a website called Store Adore, an online guide to the best boutique shopping around the country and online. I get paid (at least in theory) to browse, analyze and think about stores and what is inside of them. I look at cute...

In just a few short weeks, September magazines will be hitting newsstands and dropping with a thud on doorsteps nationwide. Always the fattest issues of the year, the fall fashion glossies are often too heavy to cart anywhere (so much for airplane reading) and too thick to fit inside of...

As a founder of Store Adore, the personalized web-based guide to the best boutique shopping around the country and online, I spend a lot of time thinking about what makes a quality shopping experience. Like an editorial Zagat guide for shopping,...

Every woman I know is complaining about this season's shoes. And it's not just the 40-plus crowd, either. (A friend heard a bevy of P.Y.T's discussing this very topic in the ladies' room at the White House Correspondents Dinner, usurping discussion of both the size of Pamela Anderson's cleavage and...

She let you stay home when she knew you weren't really sick; she dropped you off a block away from the party, and she stayed out of the basement when your crush came over to "watch TV." Mother's Day's only days away, but there's still time to find a...

It's called the Lipstick Effect or the Leading Lipstick Indicator: During times of economic uncertainty, women load up on affordable luxuries as a substitute for more expensive items like clothing and jewelry. It's a phrase coined by Leonard Lauder, Chairman of Estee Lauder, who saw a huge jump in lipstick...