The days leading up to Christmas are always so much fun, but they seemed even better this year. I love minimally and tastefully decorating our house, incessantly playing traditional and new Christmas songs, continually dreaming of snow for a beautiful white holiday, picking out and wrapping gifts for family and friends, and spending time just …
Category: Ohio
Putting Travel, and Life, into Perspective
"Each moment is a place / you've never been." -Mark Strand We're only a few days away from Thanksgiving so I've been trying to take some time for a little introspection. I always begin feeling guilty when I actually stop and name things I'm grateful for or when I think about how much time I waste wishing …
Traveling Through Time: Annie Leibovitz and Jann Wenner
Thanks to facebook, twitter and a bunch of friends who are connected to everything going on in the world, I find some pretty cool events, concerts and general things to do all over Northeast Ohio, the state and beyond. Such was the case recently when I saw a friend who is a reporter in Columbus, …
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Engagement Shoot: Part Two
We had our official engagement photos taken almost one year from our wedding date--we were a day off. It was fantastic because we got to experience the weather and really pay attention to what it was like outside in terms of foliage. It definitely made me happy about our decision to have a late-September wedding--it …
Using Pinterest to Feed My Wanderlust
I'm proud to say I was ahead of the curve on Pinterest.I'm not usually an early adopter; some things, like twitter, I had to be dragged into kicking and screaming. But as someone who works in public relations and marketing, I have to not only learn the latest and greatest tools and whether or not they …
Local Adventures: Hartville, Ohio
Work has been crazy pretty much since the day I arrived. I was nervous about making the switch from an agency to a corporate setting because everyone told me I would be bored. That suggestion is laughable. Since I joined, the university has: undergone a name and brand change (I started several months before this …
West Side Market: 100 Year Anniversary
I love all things Cleveland, not the least of which is the west side. I lived in Lakewood when I interned downtown and loved getting to know that side of the city. Since then we've been to the west side numerous times, more often than not to check out the food scene and night life. …
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