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Surefire Way to Save on Hotel or Rental Accommodations

This strategy isn’t for the faint of heart. This is for all you OCD types who are willing to take risks and take great pride in stretching your hard-earned dollars. I have been itching to go on vacation ever since…

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Best Wine May Possibly Be in Santa Cruz

Went to the Thomas Fogerty Winery in Woodside today for a work event. Beats the office for sure! I was so tempted to buy one of their $70 bottles of Pinot Noir which was one of the best pinots I’ve…

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Running Sucks, Eating Does Not

The morning of Superbowl Sunday was the first day I didn’t wake up feeling sick ever since I got the flu two weeks ago. Then I ran that piddly Kaiser 5K which seemed to kick my butt and I’m still…

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My Birthday in Wine Country

At this age, I don’t remember what I did on my previous birthdays. Probably the one that stands out the most was four years ago when I turned 32. I rented a limo with eight of my friends and we…

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Memorial Day Weekend – Wine Country

I dream of YFC – Yountville Fried Chicken, Ad Hoc’s famed fried chicken cooked every other Monday and booked several months out. A coworker of mine has taken at least two half-day Mondays off work to head north in advance…

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Black Hookers on the Chianti Road

Back to Italy where we’re driving through wine country. Verdant rolling hills, brick farmhouses, perfectly-manicured vineyards. It’s just like the postcards. We pass a black woman in a tank top and shorts talking on her cell phone by the side…

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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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