Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be." ~ Elizabeth Fishel Dear Sugar, I thought many times how I was going to commemorate this day. Every time I sat down to write, nothing seemed right. Eight years [...]
"Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on." ~ Tammy Faye Bakker Pause I need to pause my San Diego commentary by discussing a life changing event that occurred on my birthday. Guys I owe you a huge heart felt apology because I have failed. I have failed as [...]
"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." ~ Jim Morrison Augusta After leaving Jekyll, we stopped in St. Simons for some lunch and then drove to Augusta, where Rhiannon lives with her husband and two adorable pups. I was staying the night with them before heading back to the Concrete [...]
"Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening." ~ Waris Dirie Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall Saturday dawned way to early, even for this usual morning gal. Originally we were going to do sunrise on the Brooklyn Bridge. But thanks to our ten mile trek and Mother Nature deciding her hot flashes were over, we caught an extra hour [...]
"I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream." ~ Diego Della Valle Friendship This past weekend, I had a dear friend come visit for what was basically a forty hour take the city [...]
"We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community." ~ Dorothy Day The Pro's There is a simple reason why social media is a billionaire dollar industry, it has made a vast world seem so much smaller with just a click of a button. From the days of [...]
"Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth." ~ Stewart Udall Early Mornings Sunday dawned with heavy fog and a light mist, which ended up being both good and bad. Tiffany and I were suppose to drive up Cadillac Mountain to see the sunrise. [...]
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson This past weekend, I traveled the 155 miles from my hometown in New Hampshire up to Mount Desert Island to see my Mertwin, Tiffany. I had literally been [...]
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Breakfast in Bar Harbor Tuesday dawned so incredibly bittersweet. It was my last day in Maine and I had to say good-bye to my Mer-twin despite not wanting too. Shakespeare really did get it right! [...]
It's going down, I'm yelling timber You better move, you better dance Let's make a night, you won't remember ~ Pitfall featuring Ke$ha Kicking of my Birthday Month Last weekend I hopped on a plane to feed my blonde jet setting soul, kick off my birthday month, AND have an epic mer-venture with my best friend, my one [...]