Desiring Greatness
“Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.”…
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Easy Summer Chickpea Salad
Can you believe August is almost halfway over already? Maybe it’s because I spent the first 10 days in Amsterdam with my family but I’m in shock that we’re already talking about “back to school” fashions and Labor Day recipes.…
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NYC Eats || Egg Shop
My most recent trip to NYC was a long time coming. After my last visit in October 2015, I was sure I’d be back in the Big Apple soon enough. But somehow “soon enough” quickly turned into a year and…
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NYC Style Diary || The Streets of Soho
“New York… is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.” — Roland Barthes, In the…
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6 Perfect Hairstyles for Humid Summer Days
It’s no secret that Chicago has notoriously humid summers. The word ‘wretched’ often comes to mind as you trudge through the oily, sticky air, gasping for breath each and every summer… And it can be quite a process learning what…
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