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Bye ’11, Hi ’12

A few favorite memories from 2011: Having my parents over for brunch and playing Scrabble Celebrating the Feast of St. Catherine in Siena, Italy Watching the sunset from our balcony in Positano My birthday in wine country Picnicking by Lake…

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The Previous Saturday – So Not Lazy

The Highline Close-up of the Highline Can you believe it’s the three ever-bickering dorks altogether in NYC! I accosted someone to take our picture after brunch at the Cookshop. The food is over-rated there, people! What’s worse was me sitting…

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Clueless and On Vacation

I think it’s sad that most people zone out when I talk about the arts. In New York, when I said I was going to the ballet, everyone asked where. Ummm, the Lincoln Center where it always is. Cmon people!…

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Pouring Wet NYC: A Day of Art

After having lunch with a friend at Mary’s Fish Camp–yummy, but expensive lobster roll–I trudged in the rain to the galleries in Chelsea. Unlike SF where you can freely snap shots of the art, photography isn’t allowed in NYC museums…

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Sleeping in the Village

I arrived in NYC on Thursday night around midnight. Unfortunately for my host and a couple friends, I made them stay up and drink with me! We opened a bottle of wine at Marc’s apartment, ate chocolate, then went to the…

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Money Monday: Recycling

Is it just a California thing? Doesn’t recycling reduce waste?  Doesn’t it save money? Doesn’t it save the planet? Reduce, reuse, recycle. On my way to Burning Man, I made one last shopping stop at a Save Mart in Reno….

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I Love So Many Things

During the homily, the priest talked about some of the things my uncle loved. A few of the things caught me by surprise and it made me wonder if people know what I love. I LOVE: Books and libraries, fiction…

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Wanted: Cheap Flights

1. I’m seriously delinquent on my posts, trying to catch up. 2. I deserve some major karma. 3. I know a gazoogle of New Yorkers read my blog. 4. So I need some help finding a cheap flight.  HELP!! I…

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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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