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The Gatekeeper

Last night I was reading an old (2010) article in Vogue about how the retail industry would have to adapt not just to an online presence but more specifically to reaching customers via their smart phones. That tiny mobile device is now the ultimate gatekeeper to a buyer’s wallet. How timely that I read this–albeit 9 months later–because earlier this …

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4th Of July

I love the 4th of July because even the moniker “Independence Day” is such a call to action. The legacy of this young country that I now embrace as my own is that we get to take freedom as a given. Every day that we wake up, freedom awaits us. There’s no greater luxury than that. Not that it should …

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So Wrong

This is so wrong…am I right? But is it wrong that I got almost all the permutations from this collection, or is it wrong that I didn’t get all of them :D? In my defense, I will probably make very good use out of all these shoes for a long time, and the fact that they match pretty much everything …

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Cá Nướng

So all this shopping chatter has really gotten my appetite going. Once the eyes are stimulated by fashion candy, the belly follows suit and all I crave is some really good VN food. Or a sinful chocolate cake. The former reminds me of one of the spectacular meals (that my mom didn’t make, though she knows how to crank this …

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Those Dr. Scholl’s Clogs

OK, so I didn’t sleep in that jacket after all, but it is hanging prominently in my closet so that I could swoon over it every time I walk by. Men would never understand this, but that’s what those of us with the XX chromosomes do. We’d dissect it, discuss it, obsess over it, and when we finally own it, …