Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era." ~ Lauren Bacall The Upper East Side Guys the Upper East Side is getting hip. Okay it has always been hip. Despite its' "stuck up," [...]
"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." ~ C. S. Lewis Yes, I drink tea I know right away you are all horrified and flabbergasted that I, a self proclaimed coffee-holic, had tea. Before you ask if I am being taken over by zombies, no [...]
"Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas." ~ Stephen Graham Jones Christmas-Ween This quote speaks to be on a spiritual level. In fact they probably meant me when they wrote this. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Halloween. I use to love dressing up as [...]
"One doesn't want fashion to look ridiculous, silly, or out of step with the times - but you do want designers that make you think, that make you look at fashion differently. That's how fashion changes. If it doesn't change, it's not looking forward. And that's important to me." ~ Anna Wintour Met Gala Every [...]
"And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss." ~ J. K. Rowling Food Scene New York's food scene is second to none. The endless smorgasbord of delights and delicacies with new places popping up weekly if not [...]
"To travel is to take a journey into yourself." ~ Danny Kaye I thought I would do a quick update, before my wanderlusting begins! Unfortunately I have still been recovering from the mother of all creeping crud stomach bugs. Nourishment has been minimal and while I am keeping a sense of humor about it (Great [...]
"Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood." ~ Andy Goldsworthy Well it finally happened! We finally got a blizzard. A real honest to goodness blizzard! School was out across the Tri-state and maybe it was the fact that for the most part the winter has been pretty mild, but everyone, adults and kids [...]
"Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood." ~ Andy Goldsworthy I remember as a kid waking up to huge white flakes falling down and my mom telling me I didn't have school. It was a snow day! The giddiness I felt at something that was so decadent especially for a Mountain town where [...]
"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 [...]