Ten Lessons From My Thirties…

As wild as it is to me to be typing this right now, today is my last official day of my thirties – with tomorrow marking my grand entrance into the big “4-0” – an age, new decade, and era I truly wasn’t sure I was going to make it to, especially in my wilder […]

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Healthy Eats: Falafel Salad with Spicy Yogurt Sauce

Like so many others, I wanted to start the New Year with a reinvigorated drive to focus on my health and wellness in 2026 by eating cleaner, moving my body more, getting an appropriate amount of sleep and continuing to check in on my mental health as often as I could so that I wasn’t […]

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Playing With Pantone…

While the good folks over at PANTONE got quite a bit of mixed feedback last year when they announced that their “Color of The Year” for 2025 was a rich chocolate brown shade – with many commenting that it felt like they were phoning it in – I think the expectation was that something big, […]

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My Winter Makeup Routine!

Truth be told, I’m still getting so much wear out of the products I shared a few months ago when writing about my Fall Makeup Collection, specifically the golden hues of my eyeshadow and highlighter. They are still a part of my every day go-to looks for work or for evenings and nights out with […]

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Birthday Parties and Presents Galore…

Is it possible to get just one more day of this past weekend to stretch into today so that I can sleep a little later and recover from a couple of busy days spent with some of my dearest friends and family? It’s not that I don’t want to go to work and get things […]

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New Year, More Gratitude…

Even though the holidays may be done for now, that doesn’t mean my festive and celebratory attitude has been packed away alongside my ornaments just yet. I’ve still got some post-Christmas and belated-New Year’s events planned! Each year when compiling my holiday shopping list, I break down my friends/family into two categories – people that […]

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Local Loves: Mr. Tuna

For our first dinner of 2026 last Thursday night, Troy had graciously left the decision making up to me, knowing that I had been carefully researching both our activity and dining options prior to our departure to Portland, Maine and that I had a couple of ideas in mind of where I wanted to go […]

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Hot Off The Press!

That first full day back to work after New Year’s Eve/Day and following the conclusion of the holiday season can be and often is a disorienting and fully chaotic event. My Christmas decorations are still up, my sparkly heels from New Years are still on the floor by my bags – so how and why […]

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