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September 28, 2020September 29, 2020The Next Dinner Party

The Best-Designed TV Homes

A TV home can say a lot about the character who lives in it. Or it can really miss the boat. I love when a protagonist’s home is a perfect reflection of the character — Meg Ryan’s cozy, shabby-chic Upper West Side apartment in You’ve Got Mail, comes to mind. But I’ve always been disappointed […]

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September 21, 2020September 22, 2020The Next Dinner Party

Sifnos: The Greek Island of My Dreams

Some months ago, our Dutch friends came to dinner and brought us a jar of capers from the Greek island of Sifnos. I had never heard of this island, but those capers, wow. They were the plumpest, funkiest, lemoniest, absolute best capers I’d ever had. So I don’t want to say we went to Sifnos […]

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September 1, 2020The Next Dinner Party

Naxos: A Hike a Day on Vacay

We planned our Greek island trip as we went, so when we were in fancy Santorini, it was time to think about the next stop. Perhaps the obvious choice was Mykonos, mostly because I had heard of it. But an island with a reputation for where the super rich land their private jets for a […]

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August 22, 2020The Next Dinner Party

Chic, Romantic Santorini

When you picture the Greek islands, Santorini — a honeymooner’s and Instagrammer’s paradise — might be what comes to mind with its whitewashed hotels, villas, and restaurants perched on a cliff face overlooking the sea. It also has the reputation of being the most touristy of the Greek islands, so we figured that now, in […]

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August 15, 2020October 6, 2020The Next Dinner Party

Escaping Lockdown in Crete

Hello from day six of a two-week quarantine in our Algiers home. While sitting around our house and not being able to leave isn’t ideal, it was TOTALLY WORTH IT as a condition the nearly three-week Greek islands trip Adam and I just took. I know I said there were no flights out of Algiers, […]

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July 16, 2020The Next Dinner Party

Numbers Mistakes in a Foreign Language

Quarantine update: We’ve been locked down here in Algiers now for four months. The situation isn’t terrible here: Stores have reopened; I go in to work one day a week (and work from home the rest of the week); we play tennis often; we order Indian food often from our favorite restaurant; we’ve drank through […]

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July 1, 2020July 1, 2020The Next Dinner Party

One Year in Algiers

One year ago today — on July 1, 2019 — we landed in Algiers to start our three-year tour. Back then, we thought we’d be here for two years, but we quickly extended for an additional year. I’m glad we did, because otherwise we’d be trying to figure out where to go next right now, […]

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June 6, 2020September 27, 2020The Next Dinner Party

Beachy Textured Master Bedroom

Whew, what a month. In the midst of the continued coronavirus lockdown here in Algiers, back home there’s yet another police killing of a black person, and now protests all over the country in response. It feels like the start of a major public reckoning on racism in the U.S. and it’s a wild time […]

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May 21, 2020May 21, 2020The Next Dinner Party

Who Had It Better: Diplomats of the Present or the Past?

I drove to the garden store in Algiers the other day, and it was the first time in months I’ve driven more than a few kilometers. (Seriously, I last filled the tank in our car about 60 days ago and it’s still at least half full!) On the drive back, I was trying to figure […]

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May 8, 2020May 8, 2020The Next Dinner Party

The Handsome Dark Green Study

It’s been a home decor fantasy for of mine for a number of years to have a handsome dark green study. A room dark and cozy, worn yet sophisticated, a room that beckons one to select a book from the towering bookshelf and sit down and read. Or, that encourages one to sit and write, […]

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I’m in Colorado for a few days visiting my bestie, trying to get enough oxygen (this altitude is legit), and taking in a total change of scenery. @ljones202
Flowers, bunnies, eggs. That’s an Easter table right there. Happy Easter everyone!
It’s just starting to be Spring in Michigan. Also: I got some very good news on the health front (and I blogged about it on TheNextDinnerParty.com).
A church turned bar/sandwich shop in Detroit.
International travel during the pandemic is so weird! And ever-changing. I’ve had layovers in Paris in the last year where I left the airport and stayed in a friend’s Parisian apartment. But France’s lockdown is tres strict right now which meant I had to hang for 22 hours in the Paris airport on my Algiers-Detroit trip. It wasn’t so bad! And how stylish is this retro lounge area?
The custom Algerian sofa is complete! It’s the best place in which to sip a martini at the end of the day and it doubles as a very cushy reading spot. (New blog post up on how this came together, with lots more photos, on my blog, TheNextDinnerParty.
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