At the Lake Placid Horse Show, the doggie costume class is an audience favorite. This year our two-year-old rescue mutt, Luigi, took first out of more than thirty dogs. We knew Luigi READ MORE →

Valentine's Day: a good reason for a 24-hour escape. My husband, Philip, and I drove across Florida to spend the night at a friend's house in Boca Grande, a tranquil town on the southern READ MORE →

Our friend D. called this a sacred place, and that's what it is, to my family and me. The lone farmhouse on a hill, overlooking the vast meadow and Penobscot Bay. Reached by boat, READ MORE →

The Petit Ermitage in West Hollywood is an eccentric, otherworldly escape: carved-animal benches and Moroccan-red fabrics, roof-garden dining, tangerine trees, herb-infused cocktails, READ MORE →