S**t just got real. Not that it wasn’t real a week ago, or a month ago. But now I have a one-way airline ticket to Queenstown, New Zealand (which, on a side note, costs a fortune), and that makes it very very real. I’m actually moving. So the countdown has officially begun! There’s no procrastinating […]
Author: Sweet as Blonde
Dining: the art of donuts
I’m not a big fan of donuts, really. I never was, even though I have a devoted sweet tooth. Something about frying the dough turned me off, even though I could be drawn in by just about anything else that contained sugar. That is, until recently. In the winter of 2015, the Salty Donut had […]
Sweet as: an Open Window
About 6 weeks ago, just one week before my birthday, I was notified that my job was being eliminated. Having worked (my tail off) for this company for 6 years, I wasn’t necessarily surprised by the announcement- it pays to watch for trends – but I still found it unsettling. Who likes to be told […]
Baking: Strawberry Shortcake
A friend of mine in Miami used to host a pot-luck dinner party every other month. Since his circle of friends is made up of people from all over the world (as is the city, frankly), the food often represented a pretty broad collection of of home countries. So not only did we get to […]
Travel to: Barcelona
I studied in Madrid in college, and I always considered it to be the more staid, older sibling to the younger, artsy Barcelona. When I traveled Europe after business school, I got to know Barcelona a little better – it was a mature city in its own right, with no need for my sibling comparison. […]
Travel to: Prague
Ah, Prague. Lots of Americans visit for the cheap beer and beautiful architecture, but this city has special meaning for me. It was high on my list for as long as I can remember. I knew that I’d enjoy walking the city, reading about its history, making friends with the locals, and finding out about […]
Travel to: Vienna
On one of my many trips to London for work, I tacked on a week to visit some classic European cities that had been on my list for a long time. Vienna was an easy flight from London, and its architecture is stunning. I wasn’t very prepared for this trip – I landed in the […]
Travel to: Thailand
Thailand was an unexpected trip for me. It was somewhere on my bucket list, but admittedly there were plenty of other places I had intended to see before this one. But – as it happens – a good friend of mine from business school was planning a milestone birthday celebration in Phuket, and despite the […]
Travel to: London
I fell in love with London the first time when we visited as a family in the summer of 1989. I didn’t know then the role it would play in my life as adult, but I was already smitten with the city. My next trip to Britain wouldn’t be until the winter of 2001, with […]
Travel to: Dublin
I spent nearly as much time in Dublin as I did in London, thanks to a key office located in the city center. My first trip there, ironically, wasn’t for work – I had coincidentally planned a long weekend there at the same time that my parents were visiting as well. Hooray for family time! The […]