How to Make Your Birthday a Happy Luxury Experience
Your birthday is approaching. Do you feel excited? Anxious? Melancholy? Sad? Grateful? All of the above?
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The Luxury of a Really Good Piece of Pie
One of the joys of summer – in theory at least – is pie. Fruit pie, specifically. There’s an abundance of fruit in the summer months just begging to be baked into a good, old-fashioned double-crust pie. Blueberries, cherries, peaches, and strawberries – just to name a few. Everywhere you go there are road-side stands offering “fresh baked pies” – you can’t drive more than half a mile in the Hamptons without passing such a place. So why is it so incredibly difficult to find a good piece of pie?
How To Talk Sports: What You Need to Know About Baseball
Eager to climb the corporate ladder? Totally uninterested in professional sports? Finding this combination to be problematic? There’s a simple solution. You need to learn a new language. You need to learn how to talk sports. Anyone who has been in a corporate setting for very long will have noticed that one of the core bonding rituals in many workplaces is a group discussion of professional sports (the sport of choice will vary by country, so ex-pats have it particularly hard.) The sports talk is usually seasonal, but not in the way a non-sports aficionado might imagine. In America in August, for example, you would think that baseball would be the topic, since the season is in full swing at that point. But you’d be wrong: in most US offices, the topic in August is either the US Open tennis matches, or the upcoming NFL season. You see? It’s a puzzle for many of us.
How to View the Great American Eclipse in Luxury Style
Stargazers of the world, are you ready? A total solar eclipse is coming to America on Monday, August 21st. For the first time since February 1979, you’ll be able to view a total eclipse from the continental US. There hasn’t been one that crossed both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the country since 1918. So this is kind of a big deal.
You May Be Really Smart, But How High is Your Fashion IQ?
What we wear communicates incredibly strong messages about us and our place in the world. Having a high fashion IQ can actually be a major contributor to your success – or failure – in professional life. What you wear to work matters – it speaks volumes about you. So how high is your fashion IQ?