A Piece of The WholeIt’s rather easy, in the midst of this hubbub of a city, to forget that I am a crucial piece of a universal greatness.  I am a part of something complex, balanced, and beautiful.  I, along with the rest of Manhattan, and truly, the world, am a proud crewmember of our ‘spaceship earth.’  I’ve heard that phrase for ...

It's a rare afternoon in Manhattan when you get to share the same air with a woman as powerful and as articulate as millionaire Barbara Corcoran.  Best known for her firecracker personality and smart investments on ABC’s hit Shark Tank, I count myself lucky to have had the opportunity to get to know the woman behind the national best-selling b...

I have a huge crush on Misha Lambert.  As she sits across from me, halfway between midtown and Brooklyn, in a quaint but in this moment, solely ours, coffee shop, I count myself lucky.  Misha Lambert — you’re going to want to write that name down because she is a rare breed of special.  At the ripe age of 22, Misha finds herself livi...

My favorite memories from within the magical expanse of my childhood are the many trips my twin sister and I adventured upon to visit my grandparents in Columbia, SC.  They lived near a golf course, and between the fresh cut grass, the sand traps (which we often pretended were full of buried treasure, much to the dismay of the course prop...

Growing up, I was not a cool kid.  Far from it actually.  While other 90s girls were shopping at Limited Too, talking about which member of ‘N Sync was ‘going places’, and reliving the magic of the Lizzie Maguire Christmas Special (featuring Aaron Carter in all his ‘I Want Candy’ glory), I had my sights set, well, a little higher…  O...

Going for Grammy GoldWhether you’re a pop culture junkie or you don’t know Kim from Khloe or Khloe from Kim, the 2016 Grammy Awards were held last night, and between the spectacle of the broadcast and of course, the musical prowess of all who perfomed, it was an event designed with a little something for everybody.  There were certainly highli...

It’s the morning after…the morning after the Golden Globes, that is, and the internet is hot with praise and criticism directed at last night’s broadcast.  From the glittering gowns to the quick quips of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the ceremony’s hilarious and well suited hosts (Ummm… Yes Please!...Okay, that pun was just bad), the show was an e...

‘There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman.  As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty…that personal writing by women is no more than an exercise in...

Keeping It CasualLike the rest of the world, this time last year I found myself swept up in the blizzard of obsession that surrounded the release of Disney’s Frozen.  I bought the soundtrack, saw it in theatres at least three times, and vehemently rooted for it to win the Academy Award (which ultimately happened).  And as the months have ...

Queen of ‘Could’ve’Taylor Swift is the queen of the ‘could’ve song.’  Come on, you know what I’m talking about!  Up until the release of her newest smash album, 1989, her lyrics have been synonymous with the doodles one would find on the cover of a tween-age girl’s diary.  Over the years, from the twangy sentiments of Our Song to the...

I was the unfortunate recipient of some really, god-awful advice when I was a wee middle schooler.  It was a Friday afternoon and I was, as per usual, in love with the idea of love.   I hung on every word my language arts teacher shared with my doe-eyed class as she acted like she was granting us the holy grail of the dating Bible.&n...

I can’t believe it…I’m a senior in college.  I’m finally, actually, literally (whatever way I feel at any given, terrifying moment) a senior in college.  One would imagine, that by this time, coming up on year four, I would have 'college-life' down to a science.  Being someone who attends school, what seems like light-years away, fro...

Glitz  + Glamour Roll out the red carpet and pop the champagne, cause (as the Washington Post so bitingly phrased it) ‘nothing says television’s most prestigious award show like a Monday night in August…’  It’s the day of the 66th Annual Emmy Awards!  Monday or not, August or not, I’m still excited for the show!  If you’ve ...

The Blending BasicsThere I was…almost a week out from intensive jaw reconstruction surgery, desperately trying to nourish my seemingly starving self.  My face was swollen up to the size of a watermelon and my bruises had been likened to that of Rocky Balboa post-fight with Apollo Creed.  (Seriously. If I had been screaming “Adrienne!” at ...

I will never forget my first trip to New York City.  I was seventeen, and my twin sister and I had been hired for an exciting project.  We traveled, independent of parents and safety-nets, from our Southern hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the Big Apple, to take part in a reading of a brand new musical. We were green to the indus...

It’s almost swimsuit season… oh my gosh… it’s almost swimsuit season… Around this time every year I start to panic, along with millions of other women, in fear of my first trip to the pool or to the beach for the summer. I put off shopping for swimwear as long as humanly possible. I even avoid browsing online for fear of being sucked in by Modcloth...

Ignoring the Noise  I have more gluten-free friends than I can count, and I know so many vegans I struggle to do my own grocery shopping for fear that I will have company and be unable to play the role of hostess with the “mostess.” My mother worships Dr. Ann’s recipes, while my sister will soon be starting on a diet consisting of only natural...

Do you know every thing there is to know about How I Met Your Mother? Are you an expert at music theory? Do you follow college basketball? Can you always “name that lyric?” Do you obsess over geography, pride yourself on your boundless knowledge of children’s literature, or never miss an episode of Downton Abbey? While all of these varying categori...

I’m on the struggle bus: Population my academic workload, the hellish head-cold I can’t seem to shake, getting things lined up for my summer internship and relational issues that have worn out more than one box of tissues… Seriously though, we’ve all been here - stuck in what seems like a never-ending cycle of “The Mondays” when no matter how hard ...

Okay… I’ll admit it. Right here, right now, for all the Internet to read. I just really love Girls. While at first blush that reads like a coming out statement, the girls I’m referring to are the main cast members in Lena Dunham’s multi-million dollar HBO smash hit. Whether you love the deliciously hilarious situations that Hannah Horvath (portraye...