Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there." ~ Amy Li Happy Birthday Sugar! Today would have been my sister's 38th birthday. It is crazy to think she would have been approaching forty, and I know full well if she was [...]
"You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through. It's [...]
"Guardian angel pure and bright, please lead Santa here tonight." ~ Unknown What is Christmas? I feel like the message of Christmas can get missed in all of the hustle and bustle and just over all hecticness of the season, and we miss what Christmas IS. Yes, I love the holidays, and the decorations, and the [...]
"While walking down the street with Me there on your mind, I'm walking in your footsteps just a half a step behind. And when you feel the gentle breeze across your face, That's me giving you a great big hug and a soft embrace. Now when it's time for you, from that body to be [...]
"You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then." ~ John Lydon Letters Letter writing. It is a dying art form, replaced [...]
"Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life." ~ Victor Hugo Saying Good-bye This past weekend, my family and I gathered to say good-bye and pay homage to [...]
"T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." ~ Clement Clarke Moore Christmas Eve Merry Christmas Eve! I can not believe we are FINALLY here and that Santa! (said in Buddy the Elf's voice, which just so happens to be on as I write [...]
"Cause, here’s the thing: To know how it ends And still begin to sing it again As if it might turn out this time I learned that from a friend of mine" ~ Hadestown A hole in your heart Grief fucking sucks. It is depressing and messy and eternal, or at least lasts as long [...]
"We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost." ~ Henry Rollins Hello September How is it we are already in September? Where did summer go? I know I always say that, but I truly feel like it was just yesterday I was stressing [...]
"I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate [...]