I love the rain. There was a 12% chance of rain this morning, but it’s been sprinkling all day and it’s dark and cold and cozy. I’m finishing The Paris Affair and while it started slowly, I don’t want it to end, even though I think I know how it does, now. I almost wish…
The biggest day of gratitude! What a coast-to-coast whirlwind the last week has been but I am grateful for my family, the opportunities, and my new, bigger family on the east coast! Holiday season is here, and boy is it packed with activities! I am so excited to catch up with so many people and…
Everything’s coming up Austin (and Houston, and Amarillo) in this checklist. READ ‘EM A journalist I worked with decades ago has written a book about Austin. I have not read it yet, but I can only imagine it’s as nuanced and thoughtful as the rest of his reporting. PACK YER BAGS Yellowstone recently shot and…
It feels like Black Friday is coming earlier and earlier every year. I am trying to take advantage of the advance sales to stock up on things I use or have been wanting to try, and to avoid shopping online on actual Black Friday as my fam will be swanning about in a luxury 80s…
RECOMMEND Norse Organics which is the same as Froya Organics (marketing lolz). I am LOVING these products. I’m not using anything else on my face and it looks and feels amazing. PACK YER BAGS Must do: Six Days Riding La Ruta del Vino (I can think of two besties who would absolutely die over this…
Thank you, blog readers, for sticking with me this past year as I very erratically posted. I love blogging and always will, but there’s a lot in question as to mediums, who is reading (I’m pretty sure I can name all of you 😉 lol), and if it’s even worth it? It is. Sporadic, as…
One of my favorite things about my bachelorette party was the night we had a fancy chef cook for us—clad in matching Gap Vintage Soft sweatsuits, embroidered with their nicknames. So this season, I was more than ready to pick up a sweater set, despite the fact that it’s still 90 degrees in Texas. I…
This past weekend, I played 22 hours of volleyball—drilled, more accurately. My doubles partner and I attended Better at Beach’s 3-Day Mini Camp and it was some of the most fun I’ve had playing volleyball in a long time. I learned SO MUCH, and have so much to work on now, not the least of…
You can click through to ig for the fifth pic – from my amazing birthday party! Backyard Ball supporting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation – always an amazing time. Quick trip just the two of us to Colorado, buying a bike and accidentally extending a hike. The best dog. Pretty city from a truck window after…
40 snuck up on me, in the sense that I just still don’t feel it. But! We’re celebrating big, first in Valle de Guadalupe, which is the perfect place for me to celebrate this milestone birthday, and back home too. But first, let’s grade my to-do list for this year. 40 Under 40 I have…