• Don’t Be Frumpy: My 3 Anti-Frump Rules

    Mes belles, to live a chic life, don’t be frumpy. What do I mean by frumpy? The proper question is: what do you mean by frumpy? Being chic is about… Read More

  • 12 Ways To Live A Chic Life | New 12-Week Series

    Each Friday I’ll post a new topic with ideas for adding a touch of style, simplicity, and self-care to your chic life. And each week there’ll be a Chic Life… Read More

  • Cheer Up: 3 Lists To Make You Feel Better Right Now

    Lists help you live a chic life. They guide you to choose and curate – important for expressing your style. They offer a semblance of control in an unpredictable world… Read More

  • CHIC AT HOME: 6 Ways To Have More Style

    Welcome to my new Chic At Home series – ideas and inspiration to help you have more style, embrace simplicity, and practice self-care as we stay home in lockdown, isolation, quarantine,… Read More

  • Keep Calm: 10 Ways To Deal With Anxiety In Scary Times

    So how do we keep calm and navigate these stresses with grace and wisdom? Here is what I’m doing – perhaps these ideas can help you too. 10 Ways To… Read More

  • Inner Peace: 5 Steps To Start Your Self-Care Plan

    We’ll cover many aspects of inner peace at A Chic Life, but now let’s address one piece of a calmer life: a simple self-care plan. Here are 5 steps to get you… Read More

  • Personal Values: 2 Questions To Avoid Defensiveness

    Does this sound familiar? You’re heading home from a dinner party or work or family thing and something niggles at you. An offhand comment somebody made to you. The expression… Read More

  • Aging Gracefully: 9 Goals To Help Me Age Well

    Aging gracefully means being a woman ‘of a certain age’ The French, the originators of ‘chic’, do not say a woman is ‘middle-aged’ or ‘older’ or ‘elderly’. Once she is… Read More