01/16/2017
As I write this post and as I look at the images from this most recent visit to Elizabeth Street Cafe, I’m immediately taken back to my friend, Jenn Elliott Blake. We met so many, many years ago at a sponsor dinner during my very first Alt Conference after I had just launched the site six months prior (early 2012, I think?). She’s one of the truest and most talented people I have ever met. You likely already own a cookbook she has styled or have pinned countless of her images into your own pin boards, but she would just as likely … 
For all of our many differences, one thing that Aaron and I have always both loved is to travel. We even differ by how we like to spend our vacations: Aaron likes to hike or climb to some unsafe point that makes me hold my breath and yell things at him, as well as take lots of photos. I like to look up the best restaurants the city has to offer, wander in and out of small shops, and spend a good chunk of time in the city’s most interesting museums. Luckily we’ve both gotten pretty good at doing both. Aaron has some time … 
Does anyone listen to the Girl Boss podcast? She always asks her guests what their first job was and I find it so fascinating! I’ve learned, having listened to many episodes, that there are two kinds of people: the ones who sold ice cream at the neighborhood swimming pool or had their own lawn mowing business in high school, and the ones who didn’t work a day in their lives until they graduated from their choice ivy league business school program. I fall into the former category. I remember that I couldn’t wait … 
Oh, you guys. Writing the copy for this post simply reminds me that I am so overdue for a haircut! I mean I’m not even entirely positive when my last one was, but if I had to guess, I would go with March 2016. Yikes. Don’t worry, it’s on the books and I’m counting down the days. More importantly, though, I’ve been using all of these tips and tricks that Martha Lynn taught us during our last shoot together to make it through. I’ve been adding quick and easy waves, pulling it back with this favorite … 
