Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"The best education I have ever received was through travel." ~ Lisa Ling Happy New Year! First of all, Happy New Year everyone! I hope that 2019 is YOUR best year yet! Before I excitedly jump into the New Year, I wanted to take sometime and reflect on 2018. While I didn't go abroad in 2018, [...]
"Christmas is the day that holds all time together." ~ Alexander Smith Plans Gone Awry Totally digressing first sentence in, but I have to say how much I love the word awry. I mean it basically means things going wrong, and who loves that? But at least it makes all the wrong things sound cool [...]
"When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself." ~ Tecumseh Recaps My trip home for Thanksgiving flew by. It felt like I [...]
“The next five months are grim ones. I always feel sorry to have the summertime change, with the dark evenings closing in mid-afternoon, and will try to lay in some physical comforts these months – the best insurance against gloominess for me.” ~ Sylvia Plath Summer where did you go? How is it September already? [...]
"Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home." ~ Sylvia Earle Friday Favorites Happy Friday everyone! Are you guys excited for the weekend? It has been awhile since I did one of these and this edition is filled with some (not all because I have to many) of my summer favs. I [...]
"Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith." ~ Kareena Kapoor Khan With my updates from San Diego taking a bit longer then I had planned due to a smorgasbord of unforeseen circumstances, some good some bad, I haven't posted an update in a Loooonnngggg while. In other words I be [...]
"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey." ~ Marcel Proust Slackin’ Kate I have slacked horribly with keeping up with my blog, comments, emails, and basically life in general the last two weeks. Just when I think I have caught up, [...]
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." ~ Charles R. Swindoll Missing Charleston Since I came back from Charleston, life has been all kinda of hectic with many ups and downs, (The reason my Charleston posts took forever to upload and I have been horrible about communication. I [...]
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." ~ Charles R. Swindoll On the verge of jinxing myself, (again) Ladies and Gentlemen, (I think) I am back in business! That is right! I have my precious Svetlana back. It has been one hell of a week. But before I [...]
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas! Mine was absolutely incredible, yet pretty low key as I spent it with family. Their was such joy watching my nephews and niece take delight in the magic [...]