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Salt Lake City, Shopping, Style / 24.06.2024

No longer a fashion desert, Salt Lake makes shopping fun with its trendy and one-of-a-kind retailers. In truth, Salt Lake City was a bit of a shopping desert when I moved here from the East Coast 30 years ago. There were just a few department stores or one-off shops to visit back then—places like Mervyn's, ZCMI, Contempo Casuals, Chalk Garden and Nordstrom (at the original Main Street location). Salt Lake City has since grown into a mid-size city, with high demand for new designers and out-of-state retailers. I'm happy to...

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Salt Lake City, Shopping, Style / 24.06.2024

Hone your personal style at SLC's vintage and consignment stores. What goes around comes around, and in Salt Lake City, vintage clothing and pre-loved furniture shops are popping up all over, and the prices aren't as overblown as you'd find in LA or Dallas. As the former "Shop Girl" columnist for City Weekly, I find there is nothing like the thrill of the hunt, and of finding a cast-off designer item at dopamine-inducing low prices. Not only is it environmentally prudent to reuse clothing and household goods, but the...

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Inspiration, Recipes, Self Care, Shopping, Style / 03.12.2020

Your life is a story.   Write it well.   Edit often.   It’s been so long since I’ve written that I’ve been feeling resistant about creating new material. Have you ever felt those feelings of insecurity and lack of trust in yourself, afraid to put yourself out there, to be vulnerable?  To introduce yourself to a stranger, to look for a new job, to get back on skis, to leave a relationship or a friendship, to get back into the game. With so many starts and stops, 2020 has me feeling unsure of...

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Inspiration, Relationships, Salt Lake City, Style / 08.02.2018

A Table Set With Love Originally published in Devour Magazine, February 2018 Is the idea of sitting elbow to elbow at a restaurant with your sweetheart not what you had in mind on Valentine’s Day? Are reservations at your favorite restaurant impossible to get? Do you have young children in tow and can’t find a sitter? Well, I feel you, and that’s why I prefer to celebrate Valentine’s Day at home with takeout Thai food and a bottle of prosecco. But that’s not to say I don’t make it count—just...

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Style, Travel, Travelogue / 04.05.2017

Every May for several years, my lover who later became my husband, and I traveled to Thailand for a heat-seeking tropical vacation in Phuket. We stayed at a small boutique hotel called The Chedi.  Every morning we relished eating fresh mangos, coconuts and drinking Thai iced coffee laced with cardamom. For lunch we walked to Surin Beach for shrimp Pad Thai cooked in beach shacks typically operated by two family members. These little huts miraculously served 5-6 page menus filled with fresh local recipes and ingredients. I still wonder...

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Style, Travelogue / 08.12.2016

From my City Weekly Column, Shop Girl. Hippie-chic shopping in Mexico I'm on vacation on the Right Coast, and my first stop is the Hamptons. This Long Island enclave is synonymous with New York City pretention a la Gwyneth Paltrow. From the first time I visited last year, I was hooked. Although I'm more of a Montauk kind of girl—I like the ruggedness of its beaches and the isolation of the community—I'll take East Hampton for a day of shopping. In the Hamptons, you can see Beyoncé riding her bike...

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