by KelleyPom | Apr 24, 2017 | Beauty, Lifestyle
If beauty is only skin deep, shouldn’t you take really good care of your skin? You will never see a French woman in one of those drastic “before makeup/after makeup” slideshows. She accepts and is comfortable with her own face. She does not try to make herself...
by KelleyPom | Apr 14, 2017 | Lifestyle, Travel
My husband and I were married in a chateau just outside of Paris which was the former home of Anne Boleyn’s aunt, now home to dear friends whom we toast every 11th of April. It was a symbolic (not legal) ceremony, which we later formalized complete with license, name...
by KelleyPom | Apr 11, 2017 | Lifestyle
I have my friends and family fooled. They think that all my parties and dinners are done effortlessly. The truth is, I’m a neurotic over-planner. Everything is planned days or weeks in advance – the menu and the to-do list worked down to an hour-by-hour strategy. I am...
by KelleyPom | Apr 1, 2017 | Lifestyle
I believe the answer to the French paradox – the phenomenon of eating bread, butter, wine and other bits of heaven and not getting fat – lies largely in their relationship with food. Eating is more about experience than intake. You will NOT find...
by KelleyPom | Mar 25, 2017 | Lifestyle, Travel
Let me tell you about my first trip to Paris. It was April of 2011 – April in Paris. Finding myself unexpectedly single, I went on a date with a charming and handsome man. On that first date, he told me he had to go to Paris on business in a few weeks, and...
by KelleyPom | Mar 25, 2017 | Fashion, Lifestyle
What is it about French fashion that makes it so appealing and, well, French? I would sum it up in two words – confidence and class. The French woman wears the clothes – the clothes don’t wear her. There is a classic simplicity that never goes out of style and looks...
