This post contains affiliate links. If you book through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. It helps keep this blog running, so thank you! The first time I visited Chicago I went in February, which everyone who lives there warned me against and which I did anyway, and […]
I have always been a little obsessed with the way flight attendants look when they walk through an airport. There is something about that neat, pulled-together confidence that makes me stand up a little straighter just watching them. My sister flew for a regional airline for a couple of years, and I remember helping her […]
I have a confession. For years I dreaded getting dressed for work, mostly because I thought “polished” and “comfortable” could not live in the same closet. I was wrong, and it took my sister Jenna (who dresses for a corporate job every single day) to prove it to me one rainy Tuesday morning. She came […]
I turned a certain age a while back and suddenly all the advice I found online seemed to be about hiding, covering up, or “flattering” myself into a corner – honestly, I got a little tired of it. My mother, who is well into her seventies and sharper than me on most days, has never […]
My twenties were a delightful mess of figuring out what I liked to wear and what I only THOUGHT I liked to wear. There was a whole year where I only wore black, and then a summer where I wore nothing but polka dots, much to my sister’s confusion. Now that I’m a little past […]
I have a confession. I plan outfits for trips I haven’t even booked yet. It’s a little embarrassing, honestly, but there’s something so lovely about imagining yourself in a new place and dressing the part. Last spring my sister and I sat at her kitchen table with a stack of magazines and just dreamed. We […]
I took my first trip to Dublin in the middle of November, which everyone told me was a foolish thing to do, and honestly they were sort of right. It rained sideways. But I have never had more fun getting dressed in my life. There is something about a gray, misty city that makes you […]
I have a bad habit. Every January, when the sky outside is the color of dishwater, I start planning outfits for trips I have not even booked yet. My sister calls it “vacation cosplay” and honestly she is not wrong. It started a few years ago when my friend Dana came back from a beach […]
I did not think Nashville would be cold. That was my first mistake. I packed a light jacket and a pair of thin flats and spent an entire January weekend shivering my way down Broadway with my sister, who had, of course, packed a proper coat because she always packs a proper coat. She never […]
I joined a run club last spring, mostly because my friend Dana would not stop talking about it. And I will not lie to you, I signed up for the coffee afterward more than the actual running. But something funny happened. I started caring about what I wore – just in a “I feel good […]
