Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean." ~ Oprah Winfrey Secretly A Mermaid If you read this blog or follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you KNOW I am a secretly a mermaid. I mean the Little Mermaid could have been written about [...]
"In the reading room in the New York Public Library All sorts of souls were bent over silence reading the past, Or the present, or maybe it was the future, patrons Devoted to silence and the flowering of the imagination" ~ Richard Eberhart I have been sorely remiss when it comes to talking about my favorite [...]
"If it wasn't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever." ~ David Letterman I know I use the words hidden gem a lot, but this place really is that. Located between first and second avenues on eighty-fourth street, walking in it doesn't appear like much. A small room with a coffee counter covered in [...]
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." ~ Marcus Aurelius Who is the genius who booked an early morning flight which meant I had to get up at three and leave my apartment no later then [...]
"Il n'y a qu' un bonheur dans la vie, c'est d'aimer et d'être aimé." ~ Georges Sands Another post more heartbreak. While each shooting, bombing, death and a nation’s agony pierces my heart, there are some that attack my soul. France is one of those. No I am not a French national. I don’t even [...]
The devastation I first felt and continue to feel this morning is indescribable as I turned on the news expecting weather and kittens and instead discovered another attack had occurred, this time in Brussels. Once again people were doing everyday things. Grabbing their coffee fix before traveling. Waiting to greet loved ones. Living life. Doing [...]