

Hang Up, Unplug, & LIVE .
It's 7am in beautiful Marina Del Rey on the California Coast and I literally just power walked back to my Airbnb to write this blog post because the most amazing thing just happened. Due to the 3 hour time change, I've conveniently been waking up between 5 and 6 am every morning I've been here on my solo vacation. This morning when I opened my eyes at 6 am I decided to not put on a drop of makeup, throw some layers and my Nikes on, and walk to the Starbucks by Venice Pier to


Ringing in the New Year, sober AF.
Counting down from 10 to 1 while watching Ryan Seacrest on the TV, everyone raised their champagne glasses full of golden bubbly goodness as I raised my mason jar full of "party water" yelling 'HAPPY NEW YEAR'! Laugh if you'd like, but for some odd reason the irony of seeing my brightly colored strawberry & lemon infused water surrounded by bubbly champagne was more than mildly satisfying to me at this point in my sober journey. In years past, I would have shopped for weeks t