Emily Ellet

For my Artist Date this week, I took myself on a tour of three renowned hot chocolate establishments in SoHo. And I ended up having quite...

Last night I rang in the New Year by putting away all my Christmas decorations, reorganizing the living room, and taking a very indulgent...

This is the second of my two-part post about Whole30.  Catch the first post (including what it is, why I did it, and what I loved about...

In two days, I will finish my first-ever attempt at doing Whole30. I’ve had a lot of people ask me questions about it, so I thought I’d...

Halfway through my commute: Oh no.  I forgot to pack my shoes. Tip: if you forget to bring your shoes to work, you will get to workout...

If you didn’t happen to watch it, Ghostwriter was a live-action show featuring a group of kids in Brooklyn that solved crimes and...

The other day, I met a woman with the most beautifully curated Instagram feed I’d ever seen. She loves the color yellow, and she’s a...

A firepit, which is about as close as I get to ye olde Girl Scout camping these days. Every year, when the weather veers sharply into...

Truthfully, it’s not that bad to me.  I do better in warm climates, both because I tend to get cold easily and because I grew up playing...

The divorce isn’t going well.  I have a long way to go in the grieving growing process, but I’m attempting to focus on the good.  In that...

While perhaps Taylor Swift’s antics have been the catalyst for that phrase becoming mainstream (whether those are intentional PR or...

I’ve never understood why I like hiking so much.  (Hiking is a good term to encompass the sort of run/walk/powerwalk thing I do.) ...

The six hardest words I’ve ever had to write.  While it’s the most amicable, respectful, even loving separation of all time, it’s still...

How miserable it is to pack dishes How many dishes there seem to be, even after giving a bunch away How I am too efficient of an...

Continued from Part I… Thursday morning, we awoke to another lovely morning of dry weather.  I have to say, I was quite surprised to find...

If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you’ve probably noticed that I’m in Scotland with my husband on holiday.  It’s terrible...

My biggest concern before coming home was that I would lose the more relaxed approach to life I had discovered on the cruise ship.  I am...

I haven’t forgotten that I owe you one more Hawaii post.  I can’t say that I did anything amazing, but it was a lovely button to my...

This post has nothing to do with the cruise ship rehearsal process, but I wanted to share my thoughts anyway. Night-blooming jasmine It’s...

“help with consistency” My only results were sports commentators on the New York Jets and parenting blogs.  Apparently, Google doesn’t...