i reminded myself today how lucky i am -how crazy blessed i am to call this life my own. essentially, i checked myself (before i wrecked myself). in the wake of monday's heartbreaking events, i felt like i needed to. truth is though, sometimes it takes something of this magnitude to be the catalyst for said ...
notes from niequist: friendship is the most important meal of the day
share your life with the people you love, even if it means saving up for a ticket and going without a few things for a while to make it work. there are enough long lonely days of the same old thing, and if you let enough years pass, and if you let the routine steamroll ...
notes from niequist: grow up or give up
sometimes in the moments of the most searing pain, we think we don't have a choice. but we do, it's in those moments that we make the most important choice: grow up or give up. it's easy to want to give up under the weight of what we're carrying. it seems sometimes like the only ...
let’s hear it for the girls
seeing as the only men in my life are the ones that i snuggle up with courtesy of my dvr every week (i'm looking at you, seth meyers), you could determine that every weekend is, in fact, a girls weekend. but this one in particular is truly dedicated to that. one of my college besties is venturing ...
notes from niequist: becoming in your 20’s
this is the thing: when you start to hit twenty-eight or thirty, everything starts to divide, and you can see very clearly two kinds of people: on one side, people who have used their twenties to learn and grow, to find God and themselves and their deep dreams, people who know what works and what ...
extra, extra
the spring issue of darling is officially printed and out for public consumption. that fact alone is -to quote miss rachel zoe herself -buh-nan-uhs. like seriously, crazytown. but crazytown in the most amazing of ways. while the mailman may or may not be playing an evil trick on me seeing as i have yet to receive my ...
notes from niequist: embrace the change
in honor of my recent completion of shauna niequist's bittersweet, and of my pending reading of cold tangerines and her latest release, bread and wine (saving those for my next trip over cinco de mayo weekend), i've decided to occasionally post a "note from niequist"-an inspirational line or series of lines from one of her books to either evoke self-reflection, or simply ...
heels were a poor choice
i'm still only about half-way through saturday's episode of SNL (i was out of town and can't seem to stay up past 9 p.m. these days), but based on her monologue alone, it's safe to say that melissa mccarthy delivered another fabulous performance during her sophomore hosting gig. "what? i live in heels, i live in heels. but i ...
hello & goodbye ojai
less than 24 hours. that's how long i was officially out of town this weekend, but you'd be surprised what you can pack in, sunset to sunset. L and i left san diego a hair past four and despite some gratuitous gridlock on the 5, we managed to arrive to the majestic mountain town close ...
go after it
Go after her. don't sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s ...
