November 23, 2020 Life As I Know It: November 2020 Last night my fiancé revisited Roosevelt’s famous quote, “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor,” as we talked in length about the effects of the pandemic. I injected, “No, no…that’s not how the saying goes. I think rough seas…
October 31, 2020 Life As I Know It: October 2020 Growing up I used to say, “if I had to choose between a few small homes over one big one filled with things, I’d opt for small homes in a heartbeat! And while we’re nowhere near that, we’re one step…
September 30, 2020 Life As I Know It: Embracing Changes Talk about change. Last month, I left behind West Palm Beach (sort of), a city I’ve lived in for the last 12+ years, and moved into our new home in Miami. Though I kept my apartment in West Palm Beach…
August 19, 2020 Life As I Know It: August 2020 It all started roughly two years ago when my fiancé and I had “the talk.” You know the one where you discuss marriage, kids and goals? I knew, deep down, a proposal was on the horizon just not quite then….
July 17, 2020 Life As I Know It: Birthday Edition I started to reconsider my birthday plans around mid-June. Normally, I check into a spa for the day and mentally check out. It’s the one day out of the year where I don’t look at my bank account and just…
April 30, 2020 Life As I Know It: April 2020 Earlier this week in my “Journaling with Brahmin” post, I talked about how writing is a therapeutic exercise for me and how much I like to go back and read old journal entries from years ago. It’s a cathartic release;…
March 20, 2020 Life As I Know It: March 2020 It’s 11:11PM on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. My fiancé is happily asleep on the tiny full-size bed in my living room-bedroom while I stay up writing and editing photos from old shoots. For those not up to speed, we don’t…
February 26, 2020 Life As I Know It: February 2020 This weekend I caught up on me-time. Since my fiancé went to Vail to celebrate his bachelor party, I hung out in West Palm Beach cleaning, resting and organizing my apartment. As you know, I’ve made it a point to…
January 23, 2020 Life As I Know It: January 2020 I can vividly remember struggling to get out of bed about 10 years ago. Newly laid-off from my exhaustive job of professional ballet dancing, my roommate suggested I see a doctor. She could sense something was off. No, not like…
October 31, 2019 Life As I Know It: October “Stephanie, why are you spending so much time and money on a rental apartment? You literally just got engaged! Why don’t you move in with your fiancé?” Before I answer this question, let’s rewind to October 31, 2018. Nearly one…