we’ve reached the end of another year and all i can say is “wow.” it went by way too fast. while 2017 was a rebuilding year for me personally, i felt 2018 was all about family—both blood and chosen. i spent more time back on the east coast that any other year, starting with a trip in february for my…
here we are, at the start of another year and i’m reflecting on the past year and looking forward with optimism to 2018. while 2016 was the hardest year of my life, it ended on a high note—spending almost 2 1/2 weeks in europe then new year’s at disneyland. in 2017, i was determined to rebuild myself in a way.…
the break between christmas and new year’s (or really between the 23rd and the 2nd) was exactly what i needed before diving back into real life. if you follow me on instagram, you saw that i was in southern california and went to disneyland for the first time. it was like being a kid again—experiencing the park as i did when…
so truth time: the last time i went on a beach vacation was probably when i was in my early 20s, and it was probably to someplace like myrtle beach, the jersey shore, or miami. i’m just not a beach person—even though i went to shore being from philly but to sit on sand all day and work on my…
i’m so ready to say bye bye bye to 2015. it hasn’t been all bad—there have been some wonderful, amazing things that happened, and some things (ok many things) that, frankly, sucked, personally and professionally. but you know, that’s life. this crazy, amazing, tremendous, sad, depressing, confusing thing called life. we go through things and hopefully we learn and grow…