mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

It’s officially been over a year since my path fortunately merged with a wonderfully talented natural hairstylist. Shanna and I connected after Damon, the owner of the West Town salon where she worked, came into Twisted Spoke (a place where I worked at that time) with flyers to promote his newly opened upscale barbershop featuring spa services. [...]

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If you would have told me a year ago that I would pay over $50 to wake up before sunrise, take CTA downtown, and run nearly five miles, I would have scoffed the day you were born. But I did just that earlier this month, and it’s one of those things that make you question [...]

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Everything in this world is symbolic, from the letters we use to create sounds, to the images we see, to the signals we send. Our creative expressions are symbolic—the art we produce, the words we write, the music we perform. The road, and driving, are great metaphors for life. Vehicles on the road are all [...]

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As I’ve shared before, I enjoy photography– the art of capturing moments, especially when taking walks with the intent of simply being open. In the way artists sometimes don’t know what they’re going to create until they’re in the moment, creating, I don’t usually know what I’m going to capture until that certain subject or [...]

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Earlier this year, my girl Angelique turned me onto the powers of AMIN.O. ENERGY; a dietary supplement which claims to “support recovery before, during and after exercise,” by utilizing “free form amino acids for rapid uptake,” which helps you “train longer & harder with beta-Alanine.” It also contains “natural energizers and antioxidants” and “supports nitric [...]

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