As I sit down to write a review of Emily Giffin’s The One and Only, I’m realizing how conflicted I feel about it. Let me start with a brief synopsis. The story follows 33-year-old Shea Rigsby from Walker, a small town in Texas. The town takes a Friday Night Lights-esque approach to football – they live, eat, and […]
Labor Day is about paying tribute to the hardworking Americans that make our country what it is. It’s also about paying tribute to those bright summer outfits you’re having anxiety about not getting enough use out of. Since this blog is all about color and making statements, I thought it’d be wrong of me not […]
One of my strongest dislikes may surprise you. It’s watching award shows. Obviously I’d love nothing more than to walk a red carpet and to be up front and personal with the glitterati that comes with it, but there are few things I find as boring as watching it from home. No knock on the […]
I don’t even remember where I heard about Ashley Prentice Norton’s The Chocolate Money. But when I went on Amazon to see what kind of feedback it had gotten, one quote stuck out to me in particular: “The Chocolate Money is Mommie Dearest, Prep, and Fifty Shades of Gray all rolled into one compulsively readable book.” I was dying […]
This past weekend, one of my best friends came to visit from Philly. She’s a born and raised Florida girl, though, so I wanted to show her a cliché New England weekend! She’d visited me once before, but it rained almost the entire time – just our luck. This time, though, the weather was absolutely […]
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a sucker for novels about excess – money, power, caloric intake, you name it. Throw in prep school kids, twenty-something debauchery, and a European destination, and I’m sold. Stan Parish’s novel Down the Shore first came to my attention through a blurb in Cosmopolitan. Definitely a sign of quality literature, I know. I […]
As with many of my peers, an embarrassingly large chunk of my adolescent life was spent watching, discussing, and idolizing the teens on MTV’s Laguna Beach. I was so obsessed that I somehow suckered my parents into driving me to Laguna Beach while we were visiting my brother, Matt, at school in L.A. I traipsed around the […]
I constantly dream of packing up and moving to Europe. (Maybe not the packing part, actually, considering one of my biggest anxieties about said dream is how I would transport all of my clothes.) During the winter I downloaded Duolingo, an app to help me relearn the French that I’ve forgotten since my high school days. […]
Living in the suburbs the past year has had its ups and downs. Aside from the complete demolition of my social life, another aspect that has suffered is my taste buds. How many sub shops can possibly be placed within a two mile radius, you ask? As Cady Heron would say, the limit does not exist. If I […]
I’m a wannabe yogi. Yes, I envy the cool outfits, cute mats, and the Instagram opportunities. But more than that, I envy the relaxation and “zen” state that yogis are able to achieve. Unfortunately, I’m pretty much as anxiety-ridden as it gets. I’ve been told for years that I should try yoga, but the thought of […]