Category Archives: living

Week Three: Big Changes in Store ….

I’ve been teasing a “big announcement” for what seems like forever. At last, I can share the news. Hint #1/ Good coffee in my future: Hint #2/ these will no longer be a special treat: Hint #3/ I can finally take a class! Hint #4/ Good shopping (and the chance to meet Ben Pentreath, Bridie Hall + [...]

Week Two: Wayfare Magazine in Print!

Lovers of travel + design, take note: Wayfare Magazine is now available in print! Founder/Editor-in-Chief Erica Dublin and Partner/Creative Director Peggy Wong have put together a stunner of a launch issue: full of stories and photographs that inspire and allow you to daydream about future adventures. Offset-printed on uncoated paper with a stitched binding, the [...]

Week One: Another Very Foodie Christmas

Happy 2013! Christmas seems like ages ago (traveling over the holidays will do that), but I wanted to share the foodie gift boxes that I made for my siblings and their families. I’ve happily adopted the tradition of edibles as presents: it’s so much fun selecting and sharing some of my discoveries from favorite shops [...]

Week Fifty-one: Visions of Sugarplums? Try Sockerbit

My latest sweet-tooth craving is Sockerbit candy. The store, in NYC’s West Village is bright and cheery, the staff are super-friendly, and the Swedish candy is delicious. Sadly, my son will not find any Sockerbit in his stocking this year because his mother had no willpower. (Yes, it’s that good – especially my favorite, “red [...]

Week Fifty: Cereal Magazine

All self-interest aside (more on that in a minute)*, if you like the new wave of indie magazines, I think you’ll love the new travel/food magazine Cereal. Based in the UK, the premiere issue (and website) launched December 3. Editor/founder Rosa Park should be quite proud of her accomplished début: it is not only gorgeously designed, [...]