Duchess Digest: How to Have it All

Having it all is an idea, a dream and a practice you’ve heard about for a long time. This ever elusive “all” is the holy grail of a life well lived. I should know; I’m writing a book about it!
But what does having it all really mean? I heard a very interesting idea on this [...]

Duchess Digest: Never, Never, Never Give Up

We have all had those days, those weeks, maybe even those years where we’ve felt tested and stretched to our limits. Sometimes the challenges you face seem like an exhilarating opportunity to persevere, to think critically and to triumph over all odds. The days and hours border on excitement as you push forward in the [...]

Duchess Digest: YOU Are the Common Demoninator

Have you ever noticed that the one thing all of your problems have in common is you? As I enter the world of a new relationship there are things about it that feel unique and wonderful, while there are other aspects that are already feeling like a little bit of history repeating. And that history [...]

Duchess Digest: Yes You Can!

We all go through time periods where we feel like victims. It’s tempting, but very dangerous, to look to another time, person or situation as being the solution to the rut we’re sitting down in. It’s the old “if only, then” slogan that can get us ladies into some serious trouble. If only I had [...]

Duchess Digest: Breaking Bad

With New Years just around the corner many of us will be packing up our Christmas decorations and pulling out our new year’s resolutions for 2010 this week. I have been thinking a lot about 2010 myself as many things in my life are changing right now and I’ve got some pretty big goals and [...]

Duchess Digest: London Calling

I have been diligently working for months; well actually, well over a year to build myself back into the woman I was before I got divorced. It’s been a damn long road that was not at all fun or easy, but I feel I’ve finally settled into myself again. And while I’m still very annoyingly [...]

Duchess Digest: Tapped In

Let’s face it; no woman is an island. While every modern woman loves to be independent, confident and self-reliant, we all could use balancing our alone time with a community.
Communities come in many forms; spiritual groups, educational gatherings, family, friends, even people with whom we share common backgrounds, ethnicities or situations. No matter their form, [...]

Duchess Digest: A Four-Letter Word

I’ve been doing a lot of driving lately. Somewhere in the neighborhood of three-thousand miles of driving; give or take a few hundred miles. And while the road-trips can leave my bum sore and my eyes tired, it also produces some of my best thinking and ideas.
Recently, while stopped in gridlock traffic on the interstate [...]

The Duchess Digest: Desperately Seeking Chanel

The world can keep its Star Trek, Wolverine and Terminator prequels, sequels and trailers. All the special effects and story lines of this summer’s blockbusters don’t interest me half as much as the highly anticipated movie event of my summer. I am of course talking about the US release of the French film, Coco avant [...]

The Duchess Digest: Going Bi-Coastal

I’ve grown up largely in an age of wealth and prosperity. Fancy cars, cellphones, vacations, houses, clothing and all the nice dinners I could ever want have made up the majority of my life’s experiences. Sure I worried about paying the rent or the mortgage from time to time, but there’s always been more then [...]

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