Hi, I’m Eileen Smith Dallabrida. Let’s grab a drink, hit the big sales and catch a plane.

In addition to shopping, dining and traveling, I also write and edit. I am passionate about helping businesses and other organizations to communicate Just the Right Words.

Shop Til You Drop, my blog for the Courier-Post, southern New Jersey’s leading newspaper, was named to the Top 30 shopping blogs by Shiny Shack, the UK retailer. You might have read my work in USA Today, National Geographic Traveler or the Christian Science Monitor. (I’m also a champion of the television quiz show Jeopardy! and know all the state capitals and the six wives of Henry VIII.)

Today, I’m an indy, blogging wherever the perfect crabcake, a hot deal or the lure of adventure takes me.

The Eileen file:

• Born in New Jersey.
• Lives in Delaware, a small state between Pennsylvania and Maryland, not a mountain in New England as suggested by an L.A. cab driver.
• Believes the outfit you wear to a fine restaurant should cost more than your meal.
• One perfect kid, all grown up and living happily in California.
• Mommy to two fur-babies, Siamese kitties named Princess and Pippa. (Yes, they’re sisters.)
• Party animal.
• Journalism degree, West Virginia University. Still reads a daily newspaper.
• Always looking for great products, destinations and experiences to share with readers.