My friend has been trying to find a new perfume lately. It got me thinking about how perfumes and other scents have a way of defining your character and explaining where you are in life. A few weeks ago, I wrote about how I was exhausted and found myself a bit lost with too many things taking control of my mind. Sometimes we reveal the most when are lost and the least like ourselves...
Read moreNew Order
Not long ago, I used to own a few clothing boutiques. We used to have a very personalized touch to fashion, which was far beyond the items that we sold in our store. I couldn't count the number of times that that level of personalization led us to making house-calls for clients at all hours during the night. Frankly, why wouldn't we?...
Read moreAll Up In My Chain
I have been buying antiques since forever. I am always on the hunt for unusual pieces & designs, so I've really been enjoying my recent work trips to Austin, because it's a town that supports antiques and has a vast collection of quality vintage...
Read moreThoughts from a Commuter Flight
What I'm assuming goes through a guys head when I'm wearing joggers, sneakers and a snap back, while traveling with my carry-on luggage: Look at this girl. She thinks she's so urban with those tennis shoes on and that baseball cap (why it has a flat rim is beyond me) with those overly obnoxious over-the-ear headphones, which I hate...
Read moreMr. Sandman
Mr. Sandman, won't you so kindly bring me a dream.
I love the extreme. I love intensity. I love spontaneity. I love passion. I love blood-rushing excitement. I love the feeling that makes your toes curl and your legs weak in the knees...
Read moreAdvice from a Caterpillar
As we all know, I love Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, as her adventures pretty much mirror my own adventures in some magical, bizarre, and transformative way. In this particular chapter, Advice from a Caterpillar, Alice comes across a blue Caterpillar that is sitting on top of a magical mushroom...
Read moreOriental "BABA" Affairs
I've been having Asia withdraws lately. Whether or not it is because my visits and short stints of residency in their vast continent happen to always coincide with the fall season or perhaps maybe it is because the moment...
Read moreEtro is My Opium of Choice
Etro is my favorite brand and I am a very loyal customer. It has been this way for years and it will stay this way for years to come. I will probably be giving birth in Etro, receiving an Emmy (common, I can dream) in Etro and on my death bed in Etro. Suffice to say, if I could decorate my life in its broad sense, I would choose Etro as My Opium of Choice...
Read moreAmerican, I mean French, Gothic
I have always had a fascination with the prohibition era and particularly with the idea of traveling by train with trunks in hand, dressed up to the nines, the way people used to travel. This was an idea that my good friend Ken had always envisioned discovering together...
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