Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"True love stories never have endings." ~ Richard Bach Symbolism Locks are symbolic for many reasons. They are solid, all but impermeable without a key. You have to make a concerted effort to break a lock, and even then it isn't easy unless you have something like bolt cutters. And who walks around with those? [...]
"Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening." ~ Waris Dirie Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall Saturday dawned way to early, even for this usual morning gal. Originally we were going to do sunrise on the Brooklyn Bridge. But thanks to our ten mile trek and Mother Nature deciding her hot flashes were over, we caught an extra hour [...]
"I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream." ~ Diego Della Valle Friendship This past weekend, I had a dear friend come visit for what was basically a forty hour take the city [...]
"When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome." ~ Kristin Armstrong Where are you Autumn? (Why can't I find thee?) To soon? Bonus points if you know what song I just quoted changed. While Autumn [...]
"Skating has given me so much that it's priceless." ~ Michelle Kwan Festive Time of Year While Mother Nature has decided to keep her hot flashes going, that has not stopped the city from getting into the spirit and preparing for when Jack Frost will finally swoop in and freeze us all out. This really [...]
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God." ~ George Washington I have to admit the first time I saw one of the arches it wasn't the one that I come to view on an almost daily bases as [...]