On Life, Hope y todo lo demás...

Learning to let go

I believe learning to let go is like bodybuilding. You just have to keep at it long enough to reap the results. And life does seem to be the one that sets the schedule and timing.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

We all have visible and invisible scars. Those that are visible might be the ones that come with age, accidents, self-inflicted, or those surgeries that saved our lives. Our emotional scars are too, part of who we are. We should embrace them all.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Is it love or is it addiction?

Let’s say there was a little girl who grew up with emotionally absent parents, who rarely had a good word for her. She grew up with an empty feeling and poor self-image from lack of nurturing and positive feedback. She felt unloved, unwanted and with an empty void, she couldn’t fill on her own. A […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Butter soft leather handbags to fall in love with by Erin Templeton.

I love handbags but not just any trendy one. I’m pickier now as I’ve grown older and have come to distinguish top quality leather goods not only by the look but also by the feel and weight.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Undeniable loneliness

As a child, I would often run very high fevers, especially when we went to the movies. It was absolute coincidence, yet my Dad started to fear taking me to the theatre at all. I don’t remember the pain I was in, but I do remember how my Dad and grandmother cared for me. The […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

If money were no object, what would you be doing with your life?

We are hardwired; from the moment we take our first breath, to start competing for a spot of our own in life. Everyone starts telling us what we should do and what we should aspire to in order to become successful, and by “successful,” they of course mean financial success. I have yet to hear […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Life: a constant series of “goodbyes.”

Probably the toughest lesson life teaches us is that of letting go of people and things. We don’t realize life is a series of constant “goodbyes,” until we experience the most painful one. The one that transforms you, that makes you realize how fragile life is and that nothing and nobody stays in our lives […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Clearing your mind by cleaning your space

I tell my family and friends that I like to clean and they find it very strange. See, I’m one of those people who has a hard time sitting still and cleaning helps me focus, relax and put my thoughts and life in order. Now, more than ever, I’m taking stock of all I own, […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Instant Pretty Lips and New Malibu Nudes Collection by Bobbi Brown

In spring, which is right around the corner, we start to crave the warm weather, the longer days and of course, the new makeup hues that will brighten our somewhat dull looking “winter” skin. Light, we crave light! We want to brighten our looks with color, but softly, discreetly. Bobbi Brown has introduced just that […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

On not giving up

I recently watched Out of Africa again. It was first released in 1985 and back then, I saw it as a love story, now, all these years later as many other things, I saw it from a different place and perspective. It’s not about love anymore for me, it’s about courage and not giving up.