My Beauty Guru Morning Routine

By: Sarah I have fallen DEEP down inside the beauty guru spiral on Youtube. From Simply Nailogical to Safiya Naygard, I like my gurus irreverent and self-aware. I type this with my perfect Holo Taco coated nails (and are most definitely not embarrassingly chipped) (also open to sponsorship). There are always blogs and videos about …

The Wedding Hashtag: Bridesmaid Dress Extravaganza

By: Sarah As the Kristin Wiig to Marta’s Maya Rudolph in our version of Bridesmaids, there was a day we made an appointment to look at bridesmaid dresses and drink champagne. After a VERY successful first day looking for Marta’s wedding dress (which you’ll hear about from her), Jane so sweetly says at brunch, “Hey …

The Hot Second I was a Professional Cake Baker

By: Sarah Sometimes, you see a musical, and you think to yourself, “wow, that was a great show. It feels very relatable to my life.” Well, I saw Waitress and left thinking, “I CAN DO THIS.” Change the pies to cakes and forget the whole pregnancy story line, but that was me in June of …

Sarah’s Levels of Being New York Trash

By: Sarah I have lived in New York for a couple of years now, and I know there are qualifiers as to what makes you a “real New Yorker,” such as living here for 10 years, yelling at a car as you cross the road, or saying that you’re in a long distance relationship when …

UNGA Week aka Christmas for IR Nerds

By Marta If you know anything about me, you are probably aware of my passion for international affairs. I have always been interested in other countries and cultures, but I first realized my desire to make a career out of this after attending my first Model UN conference in high school. I was woefully under-prepared …

How Many Times is Too Many When Listening to the Six Soundtrack?

By: Sarah If you’ve spent any amount of time with me, you know I love musicals. To give you some context, if you ask me what my favorite show is, I will give you a tier. I have every single playbill since moving here, and I’m running out of space on my bookshelf. If I …

Making Friends in NYC and My Many Failed Attempts

By: Sarah When Marta, an extrovert, and me, an introvert, went to France, we both desperately wanted to be friends with our colleagues when we realized we are going to be locked away in a tower each night. You know, typical work day: wake up, hike down the mountain, shop in the village for supplies, …

The Origin Story of “The Coffee Clatch”

By: Sarah So many of you have been BEGGING to explain why this blog is called “The Coffee Clatch.” (Mainly, Alex asked me one time). Because I give the people (err, person) what they demand, I shall share the storied history of the sacred family “Clatch—” a tradition that has continued through generations. The basic …

The Wedding Hashtag: Marta & I are getting married (and Ben will be there too)

By: Sarah If any of you don’t know, Marta is getting married next year to a lovely guy named Ben who loves law, Crate & Barrel, and Marta. He and I have 2 out of 3 in common (Sorry, Marta, but law wins). They have a beautiful wedding website with charming pictures and a retelling …

Life and Other Things in the Age of Adulting

By: Marta One of my favorite pieces of writing in recent years is “The Opposite of Loneliness” by Marina Keegan. Somewhere in the slushy, gloomy January of my fourth (but not last) year of college (I did a joint degree program, but we can talk about that another time) I was desperate to read anything …