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Holey Donuts NYC
Low-fat, low-calorie donuts in NYC that are also really, really, ridiculously delicious? I’m not sure if my favorite part of Holey Donuts was the lemon topping that turned from solid to liquid in my...
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My Writing Process: Ettible Edition
My friend Katie Qué of imyourkatieque.com asked me to follow up her post in the “My Writing Process” blog tour because once upon a time, I did do some writing. My college degree is in English, and my...
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Unboxing My New Birchbox
I let my friend Kim talk me into Birchbox after months and months of avoiding it. I thought I was too picky about the ingredients I put on my body. I thought my skin and hair were too ~particular~ to...
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TJ, Ashleigh, Sofina, and Chase – Ohio Family Photography – Columbus, OH
I grew up going to the same church as Ashleigh’s entire family in our small town in Ohio, but it was her dad I spent the most time with. Because he worked at a collision repair shop, and I wrecked a...
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Grilled Elderly Couple in Japan
I’m going to Japan for the first time in a couple of weeks with a group of friends and am so excited. But also so nervous. I don’t speak a lick of Japanese–okay, that’s actually incorrect; I learned...
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Jeff Koons at the Whitney Museum of American Art
I saw “Jeff Koons: A Retrospective” at the Whitney sort of by accident. I wanted to go to the beach, but it was supposed to rain, and my friends were being wimpy, so we went to the museum instead. I...
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Buying a Bidet Because You Miss Japanese Toilets
I just came back from Japan a week ago, as probably everyone and his mother knows by now, thanks to my Instagram and Twitter and Facebook and jet-lag-induced phone calls in the middle of the night. An...
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Lake Kawaguchi, at the Foot of Mt. Fuji
I was just reminiscing about the night my friends and I stayed at a hotel called Konansou at the foot of Mt. Fuji and wanted to edit just this one picture while it was on my mind. My boyfriend, Jack,...
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My Zojirushi Travel Mug Changed My Life
You know how some people are brand fangirls and fanboys? Like, all of their tech products are made by Apple, they only buy Subaru cars, they’re disappointed if a restaurant only serves Coke instead of...
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Dudes and the Dogs They Love: Tails of NYC RescueMen Calendar
My friend Kim had a date scheduled for Thursday night, but then an invitation hit my inbox for the Tails of NYC RescueMen 2015 calendar launch event. Hot dudes and rescue animals are two of the causes...
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One Year of Bliss + A New Arrival
My roommate/landlord/former co-worker/friend/boyfriend Jack and I celebrated our one-year dating anniversary on October 24th! It partly feels like we’ve been together forever, and I partly have these...
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Sometimes, in New York City
Sometimes NYC is unbearably big. There’s no such thing as Central Perk or whatever the name of the bar in “How I Met Your Mother” was, because real friends live miles apart in different boroughs, and...
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Kyle, Erin, and Family – Ohio Family Photography
I grew up in a tiny town where the houses are miles apart and yet everyone knows all of their neighbors. Erin’s family lived a few roads away from us, and her mom taught the Bible study I used to go to...
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Train Tracks Photoshoot – Catskills, NY
This fall, I wanted to spend my birthday weekend somewhere upstate in the Catskills with a few of my friends and a hot tub. Our first afternoon there, when Jack was doing stuff for work and Andrew was...
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The Pierre Hotel Tea Service
I reviewed fancy English afternoon tea at The Pierre Hotel on my food blog today. The teahouse options in NYC are as diverse as its population, but this one is just what I think of when I think of high...
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NYC Fireworks, Only Almost a Year Late!
Remember how the 4th of July happened eight months ago and you don’t care about it anymore? Too bad! I just found these pictures on my hard drive and like them. We live near the edge of Brooklyn just...
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Flower Beard Photoshoot with Nik – Brooklyn, NYC
I met my friend Nik for dinner one night at Hill Country BBQ in Brooklyn, and he showed up looking like my dad in the 1980s with this big, grizzly beard. He said he couldn’t wait to shave it off but...
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NYC to Tokyo, Japan: McDonald’s, Mt. Fuji, and an Onsen Hotel
The way we ended up in Japan was sort of an accident. A group of my NYC friends and I have been going to places like the Hamptons and New Jersey for the past several years, but the year before last, we...
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NYC to Tokyo, Japan: Nude Hot Springs, Blacows Burger, and Art Aquariums
Read about Days 1 and 2 in Japan here. On our third day in Japan, Jack and I woke up and met our friend Nik for breakfast at the onsen hotel, which was again full of treats from the sea that weren’t...
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NYC to Tokyo, Japan: Akihabara, Kanda Shrine, and Conveyor Belt Sushi
Read about Days 1 and 2 in Japan here. Read about Day 3 here. The morning of Day 4, we headed out toward Akihabara, the trendy/electronics area at the center of the city. I’m not sure how trendiness...
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