by Stephanie Block Left To Tell is Anne Frank walking to freedom and Hotel Rwanda combined, a truly horrific and horrifically true story. Yet the book seems very unreal in a lot of ways because Immaculée lets us straight into her tormented soul, bright with devotion and torn apart by genocide. Will she survive? Will…
Hey all you wonderfully wise women of the world! Let’s test your travel metal. Here are 3 questions to get those little gray cells up and dancing: 1. Who is the world’s youngest queen? 2. Which nation claims to be the oldest republic on earth? What is their earliest date on record? 3. Name two…
by Stephanie Block If life is made up of choices, then St. Tropez is life at its most choice. From the yacht-studded harbor to one of the most famous nightclubs on the Riviera, who knew that this quiet fishing village could put the ay yi yi in high season? The purrr in supermodel? But if…
by Stephanie Block My grandmother was born in Shanghai, China, around the turn of the twentieth century. and she died before I ever got to meet her, choking on a fishbone in the middle of a dinner party in Oahu. Everyone’s jaws drop when I mention the countries that have hosted my fair-skinned, almond-eyed family:…
What an amazing country!! And the biggest line you cross to get there isn’t a border or checkpoint- it’s your own fears given media coverage of the Arab world. Dismissing ancient Arabia as a dangerous, scary place is like any other blanket stereotype- you miss out on topographic details like the quiet progressivism and stability…
San Francisco, you’ve come a long way, baby. A hundred years+ ago this month you were on fire, burning for days after a titanic 7.8 magnitude quake shook your very bones for a full minute. Shake, rattle, roll and burn- that was us Northern Californians a hundred+ years ago, when San Francisco’s infamous Barbary Coast…
It’s that personal pampering time of year again- hoorah for the annual Monterey County Girls’ Goodlife Getaway travel deals! From March 1 – April 30, Divas can enjoy the decadent Monterey, CA lifestyle at delicious prices. Shop, spa, golf and wine taste to your discerning heart’s content- all the sumptuous somethings that Monterey is known…