True style is timeless, ageless, chic, appropriate, eye catching, comfortable, pleasurable, never dated or trendy. Style makers and stylish people are those who look forever fabulous or casually elegant in whatever they are wearing, and who tend to carry this individual style into their home environments where they collect extraordinary objects, whether furniture, jewelry, art, books or kitchenware. You know true style when you see it. When you yourself possess it, others are unconsciously aware of your presence, note your unique whisper of effortless sensuality, artistry, excellence, expression and always undeniably imperfect perfection. Style is almost indescribable, although I am…
Meals to Nourish the Blonde Within: 365 Days of Beautiful Breakfasts Every great meal needs to start with inspiration: inspiration from a person, a setting, the atmosphere, an event; perhaps inspiration from a single ingredient, a blooming lily placed just so, or even thoughts of a fantasy goal or destination you wish to achieve through the meal. Breakfast is to me what lingerie is to a glorious love affair: it’s the flirtation, the preview, the mindset and the foreplay for the miraculous day to come. My table is usually set in place the night before, whether I will be breakfasting…
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? My children are healthy and content, I am in a zone of peace and fully present, walking a beautiful beach, early in the morning, and I am creative and/or inspiring all day long and loving through the night. 2. What is your greatest fear? Being unable to fix something terrible, not being in love, and being alone (not out of choice). 3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? My fear. Sometimes it can get the best of me and momentarily, I spiral downward until I take hold of the…
This Blonde’s fitness philosophy developed over 30 years, 30 years of working out through three pregnancies (very carefully and with professional guidance), 20 injuries, nine careers, a divorce, the death of loved ones, and various emergencies, celebrations, and tribulations. I had the extraordinary opportunity to train with some of the most revered exercise experts in the world. I was fortunate to meet a few of them at the very beginning of their careers, such fitness pioneers a Radu Teodorescu, Debbie Dunn and David Barton. When I first moved to Manhattan as a teenage student, I worked out with weights at…
On most workdays, lunch to This Blonde is like what “getting caught in a rainstorm without an umbrella when you are running late to an important meeting” is to everyone else: an annoying and unexpected interruption, but part of life. While I am a Blonde, I am not one of those Blonde “Ladies Who Lunch.” My working schedule is too busy for that! I’m a breakfast and dinner girl, not a luncher. Well, not usually. That said, we do need our midday fuel. And sometimes, business lunches are unavoidable. And occasionally, when working from home, I do prepare something a…