My father is a conductor. Not the train type, the orchestral kind where you wear tuxedo tails. I had to explain this a lot as a child, and still do. He's traveled all over the globe guest conducting symphonies: from Mozart to Wagner to Gershwin - Chile to China to Romania. It's probably no surprise …
If you know me, you know that I dated veeeeeery badly while living in NYC. I had a lot going on that was working out well for me in Brooklyn - I had cool jobs (from what people kept telling me), socialized with a bunch of super diverse friend circles (which had me double and sometimes triple …
Full disclosure: I've never been much of a dog person. In elementary school, I would dread taking the school bus to daycare more than anything; when our stop finally neared, we would clamor to the front, then leap from the big yellow school bus steps launching ourselves into a full sprint - rottweilers chasing our every step and snapping …
It's happened. I'm FINALLY going to break all the blogging rules that I set for myself, aka the one and only rule - no recipes! Just 6 days in and I'm caving. But, my super-secret-simple-salad dressing recipe is definitely worth sharing, or at least I think so. First, you need to buy THIS. I am not kidding. Buy it …
I have an obsession with pillows. Not a small obsession, a big obsession. I buy decorative pillows at TJMaxx AND TJMaxx.com and sneak them into the guest bedrooms so that Derek doesn't discover them for weeks. I'm not trying to point my finger at anyone, ahem, my mother, but this was definitely a nurtured quality …
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