I’ve drawn a winner in last week’s contest to receive one free month of Rise, a one-on-one nutrition coaching app that I reviewed. Our winner is…. Marlene Marlene is challenged by gluten-free travel, particularly internationally. I loved her idea in the comments to print cards with dietary requirements to give to food servers. I’m newer…
It’s Sunday and I’m wondering exactly where my weekend has escaped too, something I do all too frequently. And then I remember that I fell into the rabbit hole of driving for UberX (including my live tweetalong last night which you can still read on Twitter via #virtualride) and keeping the content flowing here (something I do…
Stitch Fix is an online personal shopping service that allows women to set customized preferences for new additions to their wardrobe. I am a monthly subscriber so each month brings a new surprise. And OH what a difference a month can make! Here’s how it works: You fill out a detailed profile online. A stylist…
Jay Z sings about “big pimping, spending G’s” and I’m pretty sure he’s talking about something different than credit card links. Still, its hard not to read the roll of travel blogs out there some days and feel like everyone is pimping something and that everyone is spend spend spendy spend spending in a grand…
My Kate Spade New York plates that I ordered on the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale arrived and I *love* them. They would be the perfect gift for a female traveler. It should be noted that I love buying gifts in advance – it’s a great way to maintain travel/life balance and shopping year-round means that I…
It’s been a strange travel year for me. I’ve had bursts of intense travel followed by extended periods of time at home. It has seemed irregular although analyzing the past six weeks, I’m averaging 50% travel which is about on par for my overall year. But the past few weeks it’s seemed particularly exhausting because…
I can’t see anymore. That’s the conclusion I came to last Sunday, at least. I’ve noticed in recent months that things seem much sharper than normal when I put my reading glasses on. I was commenting on to my Model UN co-leader in a lament about getting older and noticing that all the parts suddenly don’t work…
Is a culture of “unnecessaries” dictating your life? And if it is, can you change it? That’s the gist of an interesting piece I stumbled upon this past week. The author theorizes that big business creates a culture where five-dollar lattes are viewed as a reward for going to work and scarce evening and weekend…
In my early days as a frequent traveler, one of my biggest frustrations was scheduling time for “personal upkeep”. Whether it’s simple things like a pedicure or hair cut with a favorite stylist, or more complex regular procedures with a specialist, it can be difficult to juggle appointments, especially when the hours those professionals keep…
Stitch Fix is an online personal shopping service that allows women to set customized preferences for new additions to their wardrobe. A stylist for the company reviews this data (which includes personal style data, sizing, and feedback from past shipments as well as special requests for an individual box shipment) and hand-selects five pieces for…
“We can’t have it all” – that’s the most current message among women in the executive ranks, an ever-growing contingent of business travelers. It’s a counter-claim to what I was sold in my teens and twenties as we were encouraged to bust through the glass ceiling by day and go home to perfect fulfilled lives…