A few days ago, I came across this question in our Facebook group and found it so compelling that I wanted to dedicate an entire post to answering it:Saw something interesting while scrolling through Instagram today that was an interaction between influencer and follower and I ...read more
Anxiety is a funny thing. I've dealt with it for as long as I can remember and any time I think I've figured it out or 'grown out of it,' I'm reminded that won't ever fully be the case. And I need to come to terms with that. Earlier in the summer, I hadn't been experiencing much ...read more
When it comes to breakups, you're usually in one of two camps: The type of person who drowns their sorrows in sad songs and feels the breakup, or the person who drowns out the feelings with 'boy/girl, bye' songs. In our office, we're squarely divided down the middle, so we ...read more
During a recent editorial meeting, we started chatting about 'magical' modern conveniences, or physical items we can't imagine living without. These aren't actually items we'd die without (if they were, we'd be writing about people, places, and food—not bluetooth converters), but ...read more
Sloan is only three-years-old and the "mistakes" she makes are minimal—enthusiastically placing stickers all over her bed frame, getting Play-Doh caught in the grooves of our coffee table or shattering a 'big girl' glass she's convinced me to let her drink from. But sometimes I ...read more
Like most women, I have a complicated relationship with my body. While I've never suffered from an eating disorder, it took me a long time to completely remove the stigmas surrounding food from my own life. In middle school, nearly all of my conversations with friends revolved ...read more
I don’t know about you, but I rarely pass on the opportunity to learn about the daily habits of successful people. From the creation of a habit, to changing your behavior to incorporate it on a daily basis, to the changes you see unfold because of these new habits is incredibly ...read more
As much as I love keeping a to-do list and relish the satisfaction that comes from checking each item off, I have a knack for finding every reason under the sun to put off a house chore. Since I enjoy the process of cleaning and the end result, I've come to realize that it's ...read more
A few months ago, I was helping a good friend get her money organized. As we sat down to chat about her goals, she paused and told me that the conversation we were about to have made her nervous, which I wasn't expecting. She's a lawyer who regularly negotiates six-figure deals ...read more
Until recently, the last wedding I'd attended had been as the flower girl. But the further I get from my college graduation, the more high-pitched Facetime calls ("I SAID YES!"), Save the Dates, RSVP cards, links to registries, and even spreadsheets of table arrangements I ...read more
If you made it through your twenties, you likely made it through your quarter-life crisis. If you’re in your twenties—get ready. At some point (and maybe that point is now), you’re going to feel like you’ve hit a road block—a roadblock where you completely question everything ...read more
This is Part 2 of a Four-Part Series. Start here, if you missed Tuesday's post.In many ways, it felt like both a blessing and a curse that the KonMari Method begins with the category Clothing, since it felt like an enormous weight to complete it first, but also an enormous weight ...read more
When I applied to an all-women's college my senior year of high school, I did it as a favor to my beloved principal who told me, "If I had a daughter, this is where I'd want her to go." I, on the other hand, had my suspicions. I'd always been a tomboy growing up, competing in ...read more
We've all been there before: You feel unsettled, anxious, or simply confused about your relationship with a friend. You can't quite put your finger on it but slowly (sometimes very slowly), it dawns on you that the friendship has become unhealthy, even toxic, and you may need to ...read more
Ever since I began opening up about my almost-daily dealings with anxiety on Instagram (see here and here), I've received a flood of overwhelmingly positive responses, and also a lot of questions. It's honestly one of the most exciting privileges of my job—to connect with and ...read more
When I was 22, I was grabbing coffee before work one morning when an older man came up next to me and asked, "You're having a baby?" I froze. Pregnancy wasn't something I was even remotely considering at that age and after turning a deep shade of red, I promptly left the shop. In ...read more
You wouldn't immediately know it, but I've always considered myself an introvert. While I'm an open-book with close friends and family, I have trouble sharing on social media and essentially freeze, deer-in-headlights style, when meeting anyone new (attending a cocktail party ...read more
In terms of trash consciousness, I'm somewhere along the scale of, "Never purchases plastic water bottles," and "How do I compost?" I'm well-meaning—I recycle, bring reusable bags to the grocery store, and use cloth rags instead of paper towels—but I've also recently become aware ...read more
I've known it for a while. The truth was never far away—blinking bright, directly in front of my face: I'm addicted to my phone.I've always been reluctant to embrace technology. I never had a pager (could I have dated myself any more in five words?), got my first cell phone years ...read more
When I created Cupcakes and Cashmere's motto, "Elevate everyday life," nothing embodied that more than the tiny little things we do to improve our daily routine. I had our team share the simple things they do each day to make drab days feel a bit brighter. 1. Set alarms with ...read more
Now that I’m in my thirties, my methods for keeping in touch with friends has changed dramatically from the previous decade. Not only do I have a smaller, closer group of friends, but the opportunities we have to get together have become that much more meaningful because we’re ...read more
Every Friday, Emily and I share our "highs and lows" from the week in our newsletter. The lows are (thankfully) usually benign enough that I forget them nearly as soon as the week is over, but last week, I wrote, "Watching person after person take photos of art at The Broad ...read more
It's been a while since I've done a "Day in the Life" so I thought it would be fun to share with you what a regular weekday looks like for me now, complete with a photoshoot of our spring line of Cupcakes and Cashmere for the Shop, a team lunch break, cuddles with Sloan, therapy, ...read more
Ever since my 7th grade science class, I've been fascinated by the idea of understanding information about health and ancestry by studying DNA. Yet, beyond the occasional Family Tree assignments, I'd never taken a deep dive into my own background. So when 23andMe, a genetic ...read more