On Tuesday, December 17th, it was – finally - the perfect storm. With Raúl in place of Fidel, Barack in lieu of George W., and a common sense, Latin American Pope able to hold both sides accountable, a fence that was shattered on October 19, 1960 following President...

Photo provided by Dollface by Jules A few months ago I had an interview with a well-known, West Coast aesthetician to the stars all lined up to talk multicultural skincare with me. In preparation, I welcomed questions on my Facebook pages and the response was huge. Curiosity came...

PHOTO BY CHIA CHONG Today, it's a nod to my hometown. When my longtime friends, Carrie and Colin McGranahan, threw out an offer to do a location photo shoot at their rental house at 504 East St. Julian Street, I didn't skip a beat. A week later Chia...

Yesterday, we traveled a couple of hours for my husband's naturalization ceremony, which was held in Macon at the Museum of Arts and Sciences. MAS doesn't usually host, but Executive Director Susan Welsh was eager to after organizing an exhibit earlier in the year dedicated to the Lost...

A couple of weeks ago I met up with Stratton Leopold, a Paramount movie executive and owner of Leopold's Ice Cream, a local family business he and his wife Mary revived 10 years ago. Our talk hopscotched, bouncing from his rise in Hollywood to his love of football,...

Photo credit: Life Magazine I'm a day late to the party. Yesterday, Ernest Hemingway would have been 115. I can not pass on an homage to one of the greats and will do so in the form of one his favorites, the Papa Doble, a double frozen daiquiri...

Today my husband received phone and text messages wishing him a Happy 4th of July.  We all get these, but his are especially meaningful as this is his first as an American citizen. I got the call from Luis in Atlanta almost three weeks ago late on a...