The Butler Did It
At 7:30 a.m., Stephen Sanford, my, ahem, butler, knocks on the door of my cottage, a silver tray bearing a pot of French press...
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Philadelphia
(Southern) Charm City
Think of Savannah, Georgia as Baltimore’s fun cousin — the one that shows up to family reunions looking prim and proper but who will...
Skiing the Blues
Spring break at Crested Butte in Colorado is all blue, the deep azure of a sky against white snow so bright on a sunny...
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Waltzing Across the Atlantic
City Smart May June
Washington, D.C.
Borrowing glam designer dresses from Rent the Runway is a well- known trick of well-heeled gala girls. But it always takes a bit...
Slo Good
On a sunny September afternoon three years ago, my wife and I sat on a veranda overlooking Slovenia’s Lake Bled, noshing on a slab...
City Smart: New York
Ten years after The Color Purple first graced the stage at the Broadway Theatre, the musical adaptation of author Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...
Philadelphia
Let’s just say if we were Gil in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris,” we would have lingered a little longer. Fortunately, starting in October,...
Why Not Frederick?
It isn’t so much that my husband, Ben, and I are drinking a bottle of wine (OK, a second bottle of wine). Or that...