Just north of Asheville, North Carolina, there is a little town called Weaverville. It is everything you would expect in a small mountain town with a downtown dotted with art galleries and a bakery, a speed trap, and a charming bed & breakfast called the Inn on Main.
When my husband Guy and I eloped this [...]

Recently we stayed at the Comfort Inn Beach & Boardwalk in Santa Cruz. The Comfort Inn chain has been trying to upgrade its amenities lately, and the results were noticeable.
The double beds in our room had new, pillowtop mattresses, which we liked, as well as new floral comforters and bedskirts, which we disliked. (The bedskirts [...]

In our house, we’re big on the lotion. We all have very dry skin and after a long and arduous (read: freezing) spring in New England, we’re slathering lotion on all day long. It’s like we’re living in the desert except it does nothing but rain.
But I digress. Last week the wonderful folks from Method [...]

After seeing the movie Dreamgirls, I left the theater with the firm decision that I would be purchasing false eyelashes so as to achieve Beyonce’s sexy, heavy-lashed look.
Trotting off to Sephora, I planned to buy and have installed some lovely, long lashes. However, the sales person immediately derailed my plan and said, “You don’t want [...]

Recently we took our children to that timeless, semi-tacky tourist attraction, the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, and our four year-old has now taken to demanding over and over again, “I want to go to Santa Cruz! I want to go to Santa Cruz!” Three out of four family members recommend the Santa Cruz Boardwalk highly [...]