One of the most frustrating things to me as a human is when a friend, colleague, vendor, whoever continues to push me off because they know they missed the mark and they don’t want to have the hard conversation. AND YET THIS IS ME, RIGHT NOW, with y’all and with myself on this blog. I…
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Fancy as … | Feel Good Friday 010623/011323
Remember when this blog was Life in Austin & Aspen? I’m in Aspen again today! This place is so full of magic and wonder, and yet, so different than it was before. The skiing though? As epic as ever. 2023 is off to a fabulous start. The fancy as f@$k! new year’s eve party was…
The Hardest Gratitude List Ever to Write | Still Feel Sad Monday 072522
Nali is no longer with us. It was the right and absolute hardest decision. I am so, so, so sad. So sad. Tired. Worn out. Find it hard to care about anything. Just sad. Any sound I hear—is that Nali? The first thing I think when I wake up: gotta walk Nali! Making plans in…
OLYMPIAD | Feel Good Monday 071122
Another epic weekend, another time I fail to post Feel Good Friday… Another epic 4th of July weekend with the second annual Beer/Seltzy Olympiad! Pics on ig. I’m so grateful for the stellar group(s) of friends that jumps in, buys in, anticipates and celebrates this party, and goes HAM when they get here. Grateful for…
A Feel Good Friday in Two Parts | 011720 & 011020
011720 // Aspen: 1, Lyssa: 0 I returned from last weekend’s Aspen trip fulfilled with friendship, exhausted, and sicker than I’ve been in a long, long time. Like, sick enough that I fell asleep on the DEN>AUS flight in a middle seat without a neck pillow. Sick enough that I still haven’t eaten solid food,…
This is Life in Austin & Aspen: Reverse, Reverse!
Ah, a throwback to the iterations of this here blog … like me, a restaurant from Aspen has returned nay, come home to, Austin. Because Aspen and Austin are inextricably yet inexplicably linked, perhaps the first restaurant to move from Aspen to Austin rather than vice versa (hi Clark’s), is House of the Rising Tanuki-San,…
Surrounded by Love! | Feel Good Friday 092818
The magic of the mountains is hard to describe, it feels like words can’t do justice. I did not understand it until I lived there, and even then, I don’t know that I fully understood it until I left, and yearned for home. Couple that sense of physical place and grounding with the love I…
My Friends Making Beautiful Jewelry
Talented artists, all. At a range of price points, you can support independent female artists (or curator) who I happen to know and love. Earthy: The Pointed Arrow / @thepointedarrow I absolutely adore Lily’s sense of style (mentioned here before), and her mountain boho aesthetic calls to me. I’m particularly enamored with the pieces that…
My Place | Feel Good Friday 022318
I don’t feel like I can possibly do justice to the gratitude I have in my heart for last weekend, in Aspen, with my favorite people in the whole world. I wrote this immediately after returning home: Time somehow moves both slower and faster in Aspen. It’s as if you’re flush—with time, with friends, with…
Feel Good Friday 031017
The happiest soul! As I gratitude-listed last week, being back in Aspen made my soul happy, mostly because of my bestie and other friends there, but also because—gasp!—the mountains have won me over, they own my soul now. Fresh air, fresh snow, blue skies a color blue only found in Colorado … it’s all a…