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The Grand Hotel at Point Clear, Alabama
The Grand Hotel, built in 1847, is over 170 years old. The resort is its own world, full of history and hospitality, surrounded by the warm, inviting waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
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A Weekend Guide to Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs is the relaxing, trendy desert oasis to its much louder, much more overwhelming SoCal neighbor, Los Angeles. Where the car-laden megalopolis of L.A. offers excitement, Hollywood, and shopping, Palm Springs provides a more regenerative, low-key pace. From the white-washed walls of the mid-century modern home you’re renting for the weekend, gaze up at a lofty palm tree casting shadows over your saltwater pool and thank God you aren’t in L.A. Don’t let me distract you–Palm Springs is known for more than just being the antidote to its western neighbor. Situated in the Coachella Valley about a hundred miles from California’s arid coastline, it’s a popular retirement destination: during…
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A Nashville Wedding
One of the most poetic things I like to say about my marriage is that it has been blessed by green and growing things. In July 2016, my husband, Matt, proposed to me at the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris and in August 2017, he married me in a greenhouse in Nashville, Tennessee. Matt and I both grew up in Tennessee–him in a small town north of Nashville known for its strawberries, and me in bluesy, soulful Memphis. We chose to get married in August under the heat of the summer sun, where my bridesmaids and I could wear breezy, billowy dresses and everyone else could sweat their faces off. Did…
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The Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
The Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, France will always hold an incredibly special place in my heart. In 2016, Matt and I traveled to Paris on our first international trip together, and if you’re a friend or family member, you’ll be familiar with the story I’m about to tell. Matt and I first met during our freshman year at The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. We didn’t have much to say to each other then, and we stayed mere acquaintances for the next four years of college. After we graduated, Matt and I met again on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., where we both were interning for the summer. (I…
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New York City (& Yerma Review)
The plan to travel to New York started with a singular thought: Billie Piper. For those who don’t know, Billie Piper played Rose Tyler in my favorite seasons of Doctor Who, alongside Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant. She is a brilliant British actress who is altogether girlish, ultra-sexy, compassionate, and charming. I have adored her since the day I first met her as Rose. In the past year, her talents have moved from screen to stage, as she starred in an adaptation of Frederico Garcia Lorca’s Yerma, a play about a thirty-something woman whose infertility catapults her into a spiral of despair. Since the day Billie Piper started playing this role, she has gained…
