Today I went to visit one of my closest friends at her new job; The Emma Willard School. The Emma Willard School was the first all-girls boarding school in the United States, has a rigorous academic program, and currently houses over 300 girls from numerous countries. The school was honestly one of the most beautiful campuses I have ever visited, boarding school or collegiate. I felt like I had been transported to either Hogwarts or a completely different era- th...

Today was an eye-opening experience, to say the least. I went into the city for the day to start looking at wedding dresses and bridesmaid dresses with one of my recently-engaged, closest friends. We loosened up a bit with some margaritas, then headed to Saks on 5th Avenue to look at wedding dresses. They were BEAUTIFUL but insanely expensive, so after an overwhelming hour and a half, we were on our way. We headed over to Times Square to see our other friend's b...

Living in Tyler, Texas this past summer I think I saw a grand total of 2 minutes of rain between the months of May and August. I return to New York and BAM! we get hit with (of all things) a hurricane! This hurricane came just days after the random east coast earthquake (Side note: Apparently you could feel the earthquake from Toronto to NYC to Atlanta. I was in Atlanta but I was getting a pedicure in a massage chair...erego I didn't feel it. WOMP, WOMP.), and se...

Who doesn't love Halloween? Exactly- no one. Since my brother loves Halloween, his favorite holiday is Halloween, and his favorite movie is Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, we opted to make him some themed cupcakes. Yes, this is what I do when I visit home. We quickly found out that while we are no future employees for the Cake Boss, the cupcakes are actually pretty cute!

My mom was nice enough to fly all the way out to Tyler from upstate New York to drive back to Atlanta with me. Since neither of us are big on long-term driving, we opted to stop in Vicksburg, Mississippi on our one and only stop during our mini-road trip. Just 4ish hours to the east of Tyler, Vicksburg is the first stop on the east side of the Mississippi River. We decided to drive around downtown Vicksburg, only to realize that pretty much everything in this pa...