Wine Braised Spare Ribs

Wine Braised Spare Ribs

I love cooking for my friends, don’t you? It’s a chance to be creative. To be well-fed. To welcome people into your home. And if it all goes to hell in a hand basket, you can order pizza. A few weeks ago was one of those opportunities, and I had a blast cooking a...
Your Fashion, Your Rules

Your Fashion, Your Rules

Epiphanies come from all sorts of significant and spiritually moving events – births, deaths, stuff like that. Mine comes from The Devil Wears Prada. Well, at least my fashion epiphany. Well, one of them. The movie is chocolate and wine and coffee and croissants...
Put a Little French in Your Undies

Put a Little French in Your Undies

What you wear on the outside may be for others, but what you wear underneath is all for you. Well, and maybe one other person (if they’re lucky). Wearing beautiful, sexy underwear is like a little secret you get to enjoy all to yourself. American women tend to...
A Perpetual State of Honeymoon

A Perpetual State of Honeymoon

Forgive me if I sound sexist – I’m not; or if I don’t sound feminist enough – I am. But I also love romance and keeping the sparks going in a relationship, and I’m pretty darn good at it. Case in point, I was at lunch with some of my girlfriends. My husband and I had...