Off to Annapolis

Annapolis is one of my favorite East Coast cities. It’s charming and quaint, and it also happens to be the city where MBH and I first met. We travel up most years for the annual croquet match of the Academy vs. St. John’s College, which has become the kind of citywide celebration & boozefest I…

A Tale of Two Lounges

I love to travel. Give me a suitcase and a new city to explore and I wake up bright-eyed & bushy tailed, ready for early airport calls and whatever comes my way. I used to be more than content to zen out with a book & a snack near my boarding gate, happier to be…

A Nashville Babymoon

In honor of #ThrowbackThursday, I thought I’d reminisce about one of my favorite vacations: our babymoon. Our son is just over a year and a half, and a time when it was just me & MBH already seems like a very distant memory. MBH surprised me with (paper) plane tickets for our first anniversary –…

Tasting the Lowcountry

One of our quick stops in Charleston was to Charleston Cooks! – a cook store utopia off East Bay Street. A friend had gifted me with “Taste of the Lowcountry” a few years back and with it, some of the biggest potluck & BBQ hits of our lives. The Blue Cheese Slaw is always specially…

A Few Happy Hours in Charleston

MBH & I are known for our love of drinks, especially drinks in fancy places. So when a wedding for dear friends brought us to Charleston for a beach house weekend, we were firmly in the ‘head out on the town’ camp. We stayed at Wild Dunes Resort, where the wedding was held, on the…