Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab - scent reviews (2014) Butterflies of Louisiana!! What a fun will call night! I love nights like this. Buzzing...

What lurks in the shadows of Belle Isle? Kids… a gaggle of neighborhood kids merrily trick-or-treating like a Gary Marshall movie...

It was my domain…. It was a small, window gap of years between cheek pinching, close talker guest’s exclamations of, “ you’ve gotten so...

I grew up in Sarasota Florida. Venice, actually, which is also the winter quarters of the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus....

I love the hours when the shadows get long Sunlight melts to mellow amber welcoming the satisfaction and jollity of a good day done. The...

Swimming in reverie…. Crystalline warm breezes, performing from my whole soul….and roses…Huge, fat, velvet lipped and languid, drowsing,...

Whispers of languid raindrops, patter across courtyard ferns, from a pre-dinner rain, mingling petrichor with night jasmine and roses…...

Joining my voice with all of my friends and faire family to remember the man who brought us together and made memories that we hold dear...

The light is changing, bringing a lovely golden hue to dappled afternoons....bathing brisk breezes with a sense of festive expectation...

In theaters across the world, this moment is the same, and I love it dearly, with all my heart. After the comforting dissonance and...

There are moments I happen upon, little lovely surprises that at once, captivate me in the present experience as enchanting, and send me...

I miss the smell of those tall, thin Florida pines and cypress and scrub. The sun warmed brown scent of pine needles underfoot on those...

That would be Southern comfort food. Food has always called to me as a fascination, a joy, an art, and a way to express love and a little...

She sat there, rage eating chocolate ice cream. Every bite she took hurt me to watch, and there was nothing I could do. It was emotional...

One of the most surreal moments….. As a tiny, eager sophomore, at the National Academy of Arts, I was in love with dancing. In love with...

There are gifts I've been given, without knowing, until I rediscover them. My world shifted tonight, in a magical way. Remembering...

As girls we’re told so often - it’s no big deal... did it really happen.... but he only... That we brush it off, bury it away.... forget...

Giving the little gifts of praise and lifting you up Knowing you give me nothing back Is a hollow slicing ache With each offering But I...

Standing here in the wine aisle Feeling emotions well up And writing them down in a hurry Lest they flurry and fly away Flit out of my...

BPAL October Lunacy 2019- Death and the Maiden I felt like it was time to write up these gorgeous scents again. Here we go! The balmy...