Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it." ~ Isabella Rossellini What is in a label? When I first [...]
"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." ~ George Sand Wedding Season Wedding season was alive and well as I made my way to Vermont for a wedding weekend that I knew was going to be spectacular coming from the handsome grooms. They had planned the weekend to a [...]
"Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!" ~ Peter O'Toole Is It An Honor...Or a Horror? It can be both an honor and a horror to be asked to be in a wedding. An honor because you are not just witnessing two people's love and commitment, but Standing along side taking part in it. [...]
"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." ~ George Sand When I found out one of my best friends had gotten engaged to the love of her life, I was over the moon ecstatic. When I say the two of them are perfect for each other, it isn't just [...]
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn I have been on the rails and in the skies, working on my frequent mile points. California was only just the beginning or perhaps the middle of my jet setting [...]
"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings." ~ Jane Austen Here is another episode of "What in the World Has Kate been up to?" Since coming back from California, I have been a bit AWOL I know. Life has been absolutely crazy, and part of me misses California with all my heart. It [...]
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." ~ Euripides When my friend asked me to be in her wedding, I legit misted up. There was no saying it was allergies. I had only known her six years, which may not be considered long, but it was bonds forged under the worst [...]
When two people make love look effortless you know it is true, beautiful, and for always. Saturday I was witness to that. It wasn't the exquisite details or avant garde fashion of the bride and attendants. The precision in every detail, or the care freeness of lawn games and dancing all night. Set in a whimsical, mountainous [...]
Weddings can always bring the melancholy out of the single gal, but it doesn't have to be. In fact bringing a date can be just as stressful, do I have to hold his hand constantly if he doesn't know anyone? And then if it is family, oh lord he is going to meet Aunt Donna [...]
Ah love is in the air or at least it feels that way with Valentines Day last week and 61 degrees out this weekend. Warmer weather tends to make you dream of summer and wedding season. Wedding season you ask? Yes it is real. The majority of marriages take place in the summer months, with June [...]