the things I cannot have the fantasies I indulge in like dipping into buttercream rich frosting coating thin skin thick with what ifs full with possibilities tantalizing fragrant yet destabilizing to my current reality mmmm but it’s so…
Posts tagged beauty
Failures of Kindness
George Saunders put it best when he said: “What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.” It’s something that springs to mind often for me — all the times I let my reticence or my…
Inspiring Me Lately…
As much as I like to pride myself on being an active and motivated human, most of the time, I wind up being a complete and total homebody (not that the two are mutually exclusive persay..). I…
Girl Crushin’ + On Starting with…Gaye Ilbay
Age is only a number. That’s what they say, and, in many ways, this is true. But spend any time around those either much older or younger than you and you can feel the differences,…
My (un)glamorous life
The other day I had the grand idea of writing about “the glamour of everyday life”. Inspired by a positively miraculous sunset that blazed through the Amsterdam skies, it seemed like a good idea. If…
Fall: warmth meeting cold
A window open to the smell of leaves burning in candied tempo. Unbottled air that’s been biting at the sky for its turn to unfurl in crispy drier sheets on the bricked buildings holding people steady in their…