We are thrilled to be hosting our first annual Bitter Grace Self-Care Retreat geared towards self-empowerment and raising awareness for domestic violence. In collaboration and partnership with Bitter Grace Boutique, Resilience Leadership, and Turn It On, we have an incredible group of women who will be sharing their personal transformation journeys, as well as providing effective tools…
Continue reading ➞ Bitter Grace Self-Care Retreat: Using your Social Influence to Inspire Action
Here it is! Capital Pride 2019 starts tomorrow here in DC and I am so excited to honor such a historic and important celebration on my blog this month. I’ve partnered with photographer Pablo Raya and Alice and Olivia Georgetown to bring more awareness around Capital Pride 2019 and the events taking place here in…
Continue reading ➞ HERE COMES THE RAINBOW – CAPITAL PRIDE 2019
Recently I was asked to be an Influencer for the alice + olivia store in Georgetown, DC. This was a particularly exciting start of a partnership for me because of the work my team and I put into a few posts earlier this year, Highlighting 2019 with Neon and The Comeback - Circa 1970: featuring…
Continue reading ➞ BOHO QUEEN OF THE CASTLE: featuring alice + olivia
Children and their mothers deserve to have one-on-one time to bond and have fun together – and with Mother’s Day right around the corner I want to share a fun DC staycation my daughter Olivia and I had this past month. Sometimes, a vacation (or in my case “staycation”) is the perfect bonding opportunity during…
Continue reading ➞ HOW TO PLAN YOUR MOMMY AND ME STAY-CATION
Last week I was proud to be the invited speaker for the April meetup of the DC Bloggers Union. After not being available the first time I was asked last November, I knew I was being called upon by a force greater than me to share my story when I was asked again earlier this…
Continue reading ➞ BUILDING AUTHENTIC BRIDGES: FROM BLOGGING, INFLUENCING, TO LIVING
I woke up this morning elated, still riding high from Monday evening's Spring Soiree: A Discussion of Portraiture and Fashion hosted by The National Portrait Gallery. I was invited by friend and DC Publicist Isoke Salaam for an event featuring Vogue fashion icon Tonne Goodman and supermodel Christy Turlington. Ripped out magazine pages from Vogue,…
I suddenly lost the hearing in my right ear in February of 2014. I was sitting on the couch with my daughter about to go to a baby shower for a close friend and suddenly it felt like my ear filled with fluid - almost as if a balloon was blown up in my ear. …
