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12 Jun Home is Where the Insurance is
You guise. I’m an “adult” now. I put that in quotes because I don’t feel like one. I mean, of course there are days when work feels like work, I want my mother’s cooking, or for us to get our hair done together. Heck, I...
29 May Say Yes
I’m saying yes to everything this summer. New York in the summer is the absolute best. Once you get past the trash smell that always seems to get in your mouth and your clothing sticking to you while you wait for your train, it’s really,...
21 May Where Everybody Knows Your Name
… For me that place is Drybar. The Murray Hill location. I’m not going to lie, as a brown woman, who has low self-esteem when her hair doesn’t look good, Drybar is where it’s at for me. One of the very first things that made...
20 May Items That Delight, Vol. 1
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...
12 May All of the Brights
*cue Kanye’s horns* Extra bright, I want y’all to see thisssss–Is there not a Kanye song for every mood? Don’t answer that unless you love him (in spite of Kim Kardashian and all she represents). All of the brights was what I thought when I...
05 May 3 Girls Walk into a Bar
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...
30 Apr Bare Legs & Things…
So, a couple things: May 1st will be mark my first full month living on my own, in my new big girl apartment. I’m not fully settled but it feels like home. It’s quite an underrated feeling I think, to see yourself in your surroundings....
21 Apr Say Goodbye to Ash with Aveeno
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...