September Stories and Garden Galas

Over the summer I like to take a break from serious reading. What about you? Here are some of the books that I've read in the last month...

Weekend Reading - Sarah's Key

If you haven't already read Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay I recommend it highly. It's a fast easy read about a serious subje...

Books - Love and Louis XIV

I don't know what happened to Spring. It was here, now it's gone Temperatures have been well below normal and Saturday night I woke ...

BHB Recommends - William Boyd's Any Human Heart and Brazzaville Beach

If you haven't already watched this Masterpiece Theater program I recommend that you do. It is an excellent adaption of William Boyd...

Recommended Reading or How To Handle A Head Cold

Last week I thought that I was going to spend this weekend doing the domestic thing, like finishing my closet de-clutter project and cooking...

The 4 Hour Body and The 4 Month Face

Even though I wasn't raised by a superior Chinese mother , I still make an effort at self improvement, especially at the start of a new ...

Winter Reading

I didn't think that I would like this book but I enjoyed it.  Alexandra Lebenthal , ex-bond babe (and I don't mean the films, I mean...

On Austria, Assimilation and Art - The Hare With The Amber Eyes

The Hare With The Amber Eyes: A Family's Century Of Art And Loss I have been super busy these last few days, as I'm sure that you ga...

Kenya - From Happy Valley Hijinks to Laid Back Lamu

I was chatting with a European client this week about alternative locations to raise a family, away from the high costs and social nonsense ...

Not Such Easy Reading

If you start reading a book, do you feel compelled to finish it? Once I start reading a book, especially if it qualifies as literature, I fe...

If This Box Could Talk - The Stories It Could Tell

Have I mentioned that I love all kinds of history including military history. And, I consider myself extraordinarily lucky to work in a busi...

Delivering Happiness or How To Succeed In Business

Yes, we all know about Zappos, that "little online company that could". Really, how else do you describe a start-up business that ...

Vacation's All I Ever Wanted

Lots of stuff to do this week because next week I'm off to this place where I plan to do some of this and some of this and spend some do...

Summer Reading - So Many Books, So Little Time

Well not really reading, I should say listening to because these are a couple of books that are on my ipod.  The Quants was a little long a...

Weekend Reading - The Complete Claudine

For some reason, I'm not sure why, I've never seemed to get around to reading anything by Colette. So, I recently started reading Cl...

Billionaires on Boats or Barrack , Bella and an Appreciation of Anticipation

Just because I love to share all the randomly interesting things that I find out there on the internet From the Wall Street Journal blog Be...