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Wedded Bits: A Family Feast
We had an original plan: to surprise our (slightly suspecting) families with a wedding during the official “first meet and greet” weekend in NYC. However, my sister started whispering, wondering. Then more. And more. Turns out, we’re a little obvious with our secret plans. They totally called us out on this. Then the logistical necessity [...]
Found: Only in Upstate NY
A few weekends back we spent a couple of days in and around the Catskills park for a dear friends’ wedding - cruising around the backroads in a truck, I was giddy as a school girl and in love with the sun dappled roads, trees and rivers that lined the whole way into Woodstock. Yes, [...]
Eyes Widen, Mouth Drools, Stomach Rumbles
I was in Toronto visiting my siblings, renewing my work visa, and enjoying the cousins-siblings-significant-others-dog-filled fondue parties when a remark from my little brother’s quick-witted girlfriend caught me by surprise: “well of course you have the entire weekend’s menu/restaurant hopping schedule planned out weeks ago — you’re a [Good ol' Scottish Last Name Inserted Here]!”. [...]
FOUND: Design Epiphany
I never really thought I had a design mantra, and figured that my tastes ran all over the board. Whittling things down into the most concise “essence” per se, is my lifelong… struggle. Not I’m not saying that I hope for stark minimalism in a world that is metaphorically, at best, a three ring circus [...]
Death By Books
Currently, the image above - my graduate school desk - looks awfully enticing in exchange for the hurricane that life, work, et al is throwing at me right now. I would do anything to bury my head in arcane and useless books, instead of excel sheets and reformatting portfolio pages that continue on infinitely. (Sadly, [...]
