May 25, 2017
International Travel with Young Children: How To.
How to survive, and thrive, at 30,000 ft in the air with your children....
February 25, 2017
Visiting New Orleans and doing it right.
Mardi Gras floats are rolling right this second and so it may seem like poor timing for a guide to New Orleans. Perhaps, you might reason, this is information that would have been more helpful to you a week ago. But listen, Mardi Gras is...
November 29, 2016
Notting Hill Neighborhood Guide.
Unless you make it a point to avoid London or travel-based Instagram accounts, you have likely seen Notting Hill pop up all over the place lately. Instagram has done for Notting Hill over the past 18-months what Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts did for it...
August 8, 2016
Notting Hill Instagram Workshop September 16-18
[caption id="attachment_7609" align="aligncenter" width="535"] Photo by @belleannee[/caption] Food + Photography + London Very exciting news here for lovers of food, London and Instagram! I have gotten together with some of my favourite women who also happen to be fantastic Instagramers: @joythebaker @hannahargyle @siobhaise and @angrybaker to bring a...
November 6, 2015
A Food Lovers Guide to Venice
Venice is known for a whole host of things: Carnival. Architecture. George and Amal Clooney. Water damage. Striped shirts. But sadly, despite its convenient location within Italy, it is not renowned for its food. There is the increasingly common Instagram retreat held there, and food...
September 8, 2015
An American’s guide to Havana.
The summer is gone, kids are in school, and our thoughts turn to uniforms, Guy Fawkes and Thanksgiving celebrations and whether we really have the nerve to go for those over-the-knee brown leather boots (yes). This means that it will not be long before...
May 11, 2015
A Weekend in Marfa, Texas
Marfa is a 1.4 square mile town in the southwest corner of Texas, near the border with Mexico, and in the midst of the Chihuahuan Desert. It is, astonishingly, a Mecca for contemporary art lovers, collectors, gallerists and artists. It is also the next place you should...
February 11, 2015
Mardi Gras Survival Guide
[caption id="attachment_6489" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Photo by Gabrielle Geiselman // www.gabriellegeiselman.com[/caption] Whether you are a visitor, a local, a writer, a dancer or a banker, Mardi Gras in New Orleans provides somewhere for you to fit in and to have the time of your life. And like...
November 21, 2014
What to do in New York City!
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. --Tom Wolfe I moved to New York City from New Orleans at 24 years old having never visited before. The city immediately wrapped its high intensity arms...
February 27, 2014
The Journey of the Krewe of St. Anne
I recently wrote a guest blog posting on ChefJohnBesh.com on Mardi Gras traditions. My very favorite one is the extremely New Orleanian and rarely fully understood tradition of marching with the Krewe of St. Anne on Mardi Gras Day. Despite having participated a half dozen...
October 16, 2013
London recommendations
When I moved to London in 2005 for what was supposed to be a 2-year assignment I remember my boss telling me that I may never come back. I scoffed at the idea. Leave New York? PUH-lease. It took me 25 years to get there...