I love this city, I hate it sometimes, too. In an effort to keep track of my feelings about the Big Apple during my time here I try my best to chronicle them in a letter to this crazy place. Welcome to Dear New York–a series posted...
‘Why Don’t You’ is my weekly tribute to legendary editor Diana Vreeland who penned a column of the same name for Harper’s Bazaar for 26 years begging, “Don’t just be your ordinary dull self. Why don’t you be ingenious and make yourself into something else?” Although I...
If we’re to believe F. Scott Fitzgerald, life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. Though, I will say, there is something about getting dressed once the air gets crisp that is exciting to me. It is a chance to begin again… but...
Rodarte mapped out their favorite New York spots. ...
I always wonder why we’re drawn to the people we are. And why they seem to show up right when we need them—whether you realize it or not. I surely didn’t.
When I first met Yasmein, we were seniors at Penn State, taking COMM 360. We were responsible for slicing together audio of quotes supporting our narrative that would, in turn, help us to become journalists.
Offline, I'm a bit of a bookworm. Recently, I finished Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli and Me by Patricia Volk. The author, Volk, superimposes Schiaparelli, a surrealist designer's excerpts from the memoir Shocking Life into her life growing up in New York City. My takeaway? Everything...
Last summer, I fell in love with a few very specific items from MissGuided. One you absolutely have seen (both on the blog and in real life) because I wear it every chance I get. It is the perfect dress, it works for every occasion and is...
I am really trying to take advantage of all the fun, cool experiences that New York has to offer. So when one of my friends asked me if I was down to go on a Grouper--a social club that sets up drinks between 2 groups...
Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Lotion is legit. Storytime, y'all. On Wednesday it was 50 degrees--or so my iPhone said--but coupled with the fact that there was a 30 degree wind chill and I had to be at Drybar at 8am, I was freezing. I immediately regretted the decision to...
Tuesday night was one of those signs that let me know God was speaking to me. One of the benefits of having a best friend in the same industry as me is that she will pass along my email to events that she knows I would...