Are you one of those people that when strangers ask you how life is you draw a complete blank, figuring that life has become so monotonous nothing is worth talking about? You stand there with the faintest bit of drool trickling out of the corner of your mouth and begin zoning in on squirrels playing [...]
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20-Something, Featured, Hipstercrite Life
A Letter to My 20 Year-Old Dumbass Self: I’m Glad You Made Mistakes
(girl, lemme get you some eye makeup remover) Dear Lauren, Whoa, girl, whoa. Hold onto your still firm butt (bitch!)- it’s about to get all kinds of shitty in here. You’re excited right now. Excited to begin your adult life in Hollywood, the place you dreamed of going to as a child, but boy oh [...]
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What I Think About When I Watch My Father Leave
I avoided finishing this post all week because it was just too damn hard to tackle. You grow up, try to survive and the last thing you want to do is dig up memories from your childhood. Not because the memories are bad, but because you know you’ll never have those moments back. It’s [...]
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Featured, Hipstercrite Life, Social Media, Travel
I Was Told My Dad is Anthony Bourdain (pics)
My Pops was in town last week for a dad-daughter road trip. When I was younger, we used to love going on adventures. Sadly, I grew up, we moved to different states and life got away from us. Recently we decided that we needed some good one-on-one time and do what we d0 best- have [...]
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Humanity in Beantown: A Personal Story at the Boston Marathon
After learning of the horrific attack at the Boston Marathon yesterday, it quickly dawned on me that my dear friend Kate was at the event. I learned that she was OK, but less than a mile from the finish line before the bombings. Being a Bostonite and avid marathoner, the attacks particularly hit home for [...]
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You Know You’re Dating An Artist When…
You find a closet full of limbs. The paternal unit is visiting this week (JFK assassination vacay in Dallas commence!), so I’ll probably be a lazy-ass blogger and post a bunch of photos. Today’s photo is of our closet and what I discovered while cleaning over weekend. This is how you know you’re dating an [...]
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Blogging, Hipstercrite Life, Social Media
Don’t Open This Blog Post and Walk Away From Your Computer
This weekend I set out to do nothing and that is exactly what I achieved. I laid in bed until 1 on both Saturday and Sunday, ate lunch with my Texas family and friends, took naps, watched Django Unchained at the dollar theater, strolled Town Lake, played bocce ball and had 100% non-work related conversations [...]
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20-Something, Featured, Hipstercrite Life
How to Handle Debt: A Personal Story
The other day, I posted on Hipstercrite’s Facebook page that I had just finished paying off my car, and in a several months, my credit cards too. I’ve written about debt before; like many twenty-somethings, I’ve been strapped with school loans, credit card and car payments for most of my third decade. When you’re facing [...]
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