My search brought me to an article that I was featured in that I had no idea about. It was for the Riazul Tequila event that I hosted and created cocktails for last summer.
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The party made me realize a few things: 1) I love planning events and I’ve missed it. 2) In-person events with covid will always be risky.
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“It’s kinda like charcuterie,” I said to my friend Morgan. “A nice little cheese spread.” She looked at my orange fingers as I dipped my hand back in the bag to grab some more Cheetos and laughed.
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One of the last events that I attended before the quarantine was a panel discussion for the Brown Bohemians book. I’m glad that I was able to pick this up before social isolation began.
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Oh coronavirus…you sly little fox. You swooped in grabbing Spring and entire industries. Who are you?! While the world braces for additional cases of the coronavirus and the impact, I can’t help but think about the hospitality, event and service industries.
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Tomorrow makes a week since I’ve been back from Jamaica. I’m still reliving dinner (and catching up on rest). Until I can figure out some other things to write about, here’s the table from dinner.
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Secretly, I wish I was a DJ. To substitute this lack of professional know-how, I’ve created mixtapes and playlists since college. For dinners, sometimes I hire a DJ, but for others, I like to test my skills on my imaginary turntables…
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The third Holy Sip dinner in Jamaica was a success. It was even more amazing than I could have hoped for and i know it’s because I stayed calm as it started to pour one hour before the dinner started.
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Look at me rhyming (I’m talking about the title of this post). It worked out that way without much thinking on my end, but I think it’s going to become my new mantra.
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Over ten years ago, a fellow creative sent me an article in the Atlantic about being an introvert. It was published in 2003, way before introvert was the buzzword that it’s become.
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I’m knee-deep (what does this even mean?!) in finalizing the details for the Holy Sip Jamaica dinner in two weeks. While excited, there’s been quite a bit to do.
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Nothing feels better to me when someone walks into something I’ve created and proclaim, “This space feels really good.”
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Port Antonio captured me the first time I went. I was in Jamaica for my grandmother's funeral and I had a week before a friend's wedding (sounds like a movie)
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If you would have asked me to imagine my future about 10 years ago, I would have never guessed that one day I’d be responsible for fulfilling hospitality riders for a music festival…or that I would love it…or that in the process, I’d accidentally try and kick one of the artists out of their dressing room.
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