Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." ~ Albert Schweitzer I am not sure I can put into adequate enough words to express how grateful I am [...]
"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 [...]
"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." ~ rabindranath tagore Today is a special day because it is my Dad's birthday. It wouldn't be right to share his age, just know he is old! Like really old! I kid, kind of. As the youngest of [...]
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' " ~ Eleanor Roosevelt I have an unnatural (or perhaps natural?) fear of heights. [...]
"I'd like to cause a little riot in skating." ~ Sasha Cohen Okay, I actually wasn't the kind of skater that Avril was singing about, but I still can't help think of that song every time skating comes up. As a very teeny tiny youngling, I use to skate on the pond near my house, on [...]
“In 2014 this stage was actually the first time that I was authentically, 100 percent honest with all of you. I think it’s safe to say that all of you know my life whether I like it or not. I had to stop because I had everything and I was absolutely broken inside. I [...]
"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister." ~ Alice Walker I lift my head up off the toilet and make my way over to the sink. I wash the residue off my face and stare in the mirror. Sunken cheeks. Hollowed eyes. Water dripping off. I am a disaster [...]
In the last 24 hours I have been on a rollercoaster of emotion. I have sat down numerous times since last night trying to put into words what I am feeling and failing miserably. The one thing I can write is how incredibly grateful I am for all the love my friends and family bestowed on me the last [...]
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it." ~ Thucydides "Wake up! Wake up" my sister exclaimed as she shook me awake. "What?" I mumbled grumpily eyes still closed swatting her hand away blindly. It [...]
"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 [...]