Rehab for the Terminally Ugly Puffer Jacket

When temperatures drop, there’s nothing I dread more than pulling out the old goosedown parka. Ugh. Otherwise known as the Lumpy Sleeping Bag, the parka may be the most unattractive necessity of New York City living. (Along with mouse traps and those little clip-on containers of hand sanitizer.) I refused to buy a parka until […]

What to Pack: Thanksgiving in the South

Like millions of you, I spent the Thanksgiving weekend out-of-town. Unlike Christmas, which stretches languorously across the last two weeks of the year, Thanksgiving gets crammed into a truncated weekend. With so many activities and so little time, I kept my suitcase super-light by traveling with three variations of a single theme. Every single outfit was an […]