A new year always calls for a moment to reflect on your accomplishments, successes and failures. The hope being, of course, that you will somehow better yourself in the year to come. It’s a clean slate; a chance to start again. This is how I viewed entering my 30s…a chance to look back, reflect, assess, and reinvent myself. I have no regrets (okay, perhaps a few lessons learned that I believe I could have done without) but enter 30: the decade of maturity and the chance for my clean slate.

I never anticipated starting a Martha Stewart-esque blog nor a how-to guide on dinner etiquette nor a DIY journal of ways to spruce up a dreary home. I can also admit that I do not plan on writing about the daily trials and tribulations of the Royals or Hollywood. In full disclosure, I should probably say that as I chart my graceful entrance into my 30s, I will be looking toward those individuals in my age group for inspiration. Duchess of Cambridge, I do apologize but you were born a few months before I was and are by far the most graceful 30 year old and a true inspiration to girls around the world. While this blog is not dedicated to the former Catherine Middleton, she may grace a post every so often (please keep the eye rolls to a minimum).

Here, I’ll end my very first post and tomorrow, I will truly begin. Happy New Year!