Article originally published in the Greenwich Sentinel The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer OK, so I said last time that I would be reviewing What is the Bible? By Rob Bell. I had every intention of doing just that, indeed I was halfway through What is the Bible? when I accidentally got sucked into the world of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation, Authority and …

Article originally published in the Greenwich Sentinel The High Season, by Judy Blundell Ah, the Hamptons. So much a part of my life when I lived in the city and worked in the art world. I can easily flash back to a night at the annual Parrish Museum fundraiser dinner at the table of a client, a New York real estate mogul with an endearing stutter who had taken a …

Article originally published in the Greenwich Sentinel Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright (Simon & Schuster, 2017) The summer of 2004 was a rough one for me. I had moved and expanded my business so quickly that by the time August rolled around I felt pickled in my own stress hormones. I needed to relax and recover—fast. A friend suggested I …

Article originally published in the Greenwich Sentinel When Life Gives You Lululemons, by Lauren Weisberger There is a woman on my street who I have never seen wearing anything other than Lululemons. I live in town where there is a lot of opportunity to run into each other, and so I can say this with some certainty: she is definitely not coming from the gym. She always looks fabulous with …