New York, New York

I was on the way to New York City and finally had booked a ticket on Virgin America. Doing the LAX-NYC thing every now in then, I had usually flown on United. I immediately loved the cool mood lighting, brand…

Categories: food, life, travel

Summer

Summer cities: Paris Amsterdam Tel Aviv Petra Amman Istanbul New York Partial summer reading list: The Year of Pleasures by Elizabth Berg The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg We are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg Party of One…

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International Visitors Council of LA

If you can’t escape to other countries and explore other cultures…have them come to you. It was late Tuesday evening, as I slipped into the back row of the junior league meeting.  As the speaker was lecturing about human trafficking,…

Categories: charity, life

quote of the day

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your…

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Upon Arrival in Madrid, Spain…

9:30am Arrived in Madrid, Spain from Los Angeles, CA! Our U.S. Airways flight was quick and painless, not to mention inexpensive! After much needed catching up, we swapped books(How to be a Super Hot Woman: 339 Tips, Tao of Dating),…

Categories: life, pictures, travel

quote of the day

“The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.” -Confucius

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cool sites you can’t live without

2itch.com Everything 24 hours! Search for anything in your zip code from restaurants to fitness centers to pharmacies. Fuser.com Hey Multi-Tasker! Combine your email, myspace, facebook, and twitter accounts to one at Fuser.com.  Streamline your life to one simple inbox!…

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