Do the same things day in and day out. Follow the same schedule and routine. Cross all your t’s. Dot all your i’s. I know it’s what a good girl “should” do. But do this for long enough, I have found that life becomes rather dull. You lose your sparkle. You become “one of those… Continue Reading
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I indulged in worry, sadness and anxiety. And, my biggest binge of all? Dieting! I spent a decade going to South Beach, being a Skinny Bitch and living in the Zone, but none of these approaches brought me deep satisfaction. Yet, every new promise of weight loss lured me in like a geisha seduces a lonely… Continue Reading
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*Prefer to listen? An audio recording is waiting for you at the end. “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for new and richer experience.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Yesterday, someone asked me: “What’s pissing you off these days?”… Continue Reading
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“Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.” ― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth My business manager informed me a few weeks ago that a search for “luxurious living” came up with “Tonya Leigh and French Kiss Life, Inc.” Who? Moi? What… Continue Reading
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is not a word we often hear. Worse yet, it’s not one we often aspire to embody. We’re just trying to get the kids to school, run businesses, get to the office on time, clean the house, pay the bills, and put dinner on the table. Living elegantly? Refinement? Luxuriously? Who has time for that?… Continue Reading
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“Find magic in the little things, and the big things you always expected will start to show up.” ― Isa Zapata This morning, while watering my little garden, I realized how completely unnecessary it was. I don’t need tulips. I don’t need to grow my own lettuce. I don’t need beautiful pots and organic soil.… Continue Reading
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(Photo Credit: Rebecca Plotnick) “A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.” ― Thomas Jefferson Around this time of year, my heart longs for Paris. The romance, the joie de vivre, the fashion, the culture and art, the music… Springtime ignites my Parisian heart. But, my heart… Continue Reading
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“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and… Continue Reading
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“Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.” -Carrie Bradshaw I’ll start tomorrow. I’ll wait until next year. I don’t know what I want. I don’t have enough money. I’m not smart enough. I don’t know… Continue Reading
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“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast The saying goes: “Spend time with people whose lives you admire.” I love this motto… Continue Reading
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