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Desperately Wanted: Honduran Plant

My new MacBook Air arrived today! So slim, sleek, and tres chic. Finally, I’ll be able to work productively online. Not tonight since we’re doing Fashion Night Out events around the city, but surely this weekend. Here are two luscious…

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Animal Farm

The #1 reason I picked Roatan to vacation is for the plethora of wildlife. I’ve wanted to take Dean to the Galapagos, which rates high on my list of travel destinations, and also to erase the fact that I went…

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Roatan, Honduras

Weather here is magnificent. 80-90 degrees. 100% humidity which I don’t seem to mind. Fleeting rain and thunderstorms once or twice a day. Doesn’t bother me if it’s still warm and you can easily dry off. It was unbearably hot…

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Money Monday: Vacation Grand Total $

We’re going on vacation! Does it seem like we’re always going on vacation or is it that I talk about it incessantly? Our vacation schedule looks standard to me. 2012 February – LA March – Austin May – NYC July…

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Where in the World

Even though we just got back from Austin and we’re going to NYC in May, I cannot stop researching where next to go on vacation. There are so many places to explore in the world, why return to the same…

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Welcome to my site, derived from an advice column I wrote while getting my MBA. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I give helpful, opinionated advice based on my own experience and from the expertise of my extensive network. For more, click here.

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