Women rule; boys drool! :) Check out these divinely daring Divas: Lorraine Massey, Devachan Salon & Departure Lounge, NYC “Once upon a curl, a curly-haired teen in England began working in a hair salon. Lorraine Massey quickly became addicted to care of the hair and proceeded to take her scissors around the world…During her travels,…
by Stephanie Block My Hallowed Hotels List! Below, I share my secret collection of world retreats, my homes away from home, and which properties most make me feel at home. I only recommend properties that I know and love, or that my most trusted friends with fabulous taste swear by, and this list is not…
Manly Mixed Marial Arts (MMA) cage fighting; a woman running the operations! Tracy Farrington took care o’ me at Full Contact Promotions Presents the Gladiator Challenge Summer Showdown last Friday night. Till then, I was an MMA virgin!! She is the highest ranking woman in MMA operations, and what would have happened if Pamela Anderson…
In my twenties, I never suffered from car sickness nor altitude. Like the world’s most fabulous mountain goat or coca plant, I traipsed through the highest Andes in Ecuador laughing derisively at the poor saps who hid in dark hotel rooms vomiting and suffering searing headaches. Well, the joke’s on me! At the fringe of…
by Stephanie Block In a word: Radu. Our guide, with his encyclopedic knowledge, passion for history, and unwavering energy, made the difference between a great trip and a once-in-a-lifetime one. Amidst the lackluster cuisine (who knew there was so much schnitzel in Transylvania?), shabby 3-star hotels (except Hotel Dracula of course!!) and hotter-than-three-hells weather in…
Golf, mega-spa, tennis, dogs, kids, pools, water slides, work retreats… The Broadmoor is where my fam reunion was at! I am not a big Colorado person. It’s too high, and too crunchy, and too outdoorsy and altogether healthy for me, but since the rest of the fam was going, I tagged along. My skin was…
by Stephanie Block Of course you know Annie Leibovitz. Those celebrity magazine covers–Brad and Demi and Uma. They lauded her in your art classes and you might even have one of her books on your coffee table. But you’ve never, I’ve never, met Annie like this. Though she likes to insist that it’s impossible to…