Earlier this year, I ended my relationship…with television. After making sweet love to my Tivo all winter, I decided to break it off with my remote and go back to the books. I went literal, literally.

When I think the word luxury, I envision grand estates, swish of women sauntering in designer gowns, champagne glasses clinking. (Sounds like my luxury is the set of Dynasty…) But my thought for today is Luxury Need Not Be Glamorous.

So as excited as I was about launching this series on Swagger, I haven’t been able to post to it. A strange, unforeseeable, unbelievable event has happened to a dear friend and has completely taken me off my Covetworthy game. In fact, it’s rocked me to my core.
This person is not just a dear friend, [...]

So, for the first post in this series on Swagger, let’s start with the definition.

Swagger (SWAG-uhr): Noun.

It’s a FEELING: the ability to remain above it all, focused. Keeping your head about you when all else is going to hell in a handbag. It’s believing and acting like the chaos dumped at your heels was [...]

The Obamas were named to Vanity Fair’s International Best Dressed List. She deserves it. Him? Notsomuch. What VF failed to pinpoint was the thing that really landed him on that list, and it comes down to one word.