Preppy Francophile (2025)

29/06/2025

What to do on a non-beach day summer Saturday on Cape Cod:

🛍️ Hit up a local makers and/or farmers market and support local. Chatham Markets will be going from 10-4 tomorrow, Sunday, June 29. Catch my friend and stock up like and I did!

🧀 Stock up on cheese and other entertaining essentials. has a great cheese and wine selection and the most fun selection of accoutrements! The also make sandwiches (too busy eating to take a photo) and cheese and charcuterie boards!

🦞 Stop at and get some goodies to go. The smoked bay scallops are to die for. I cleaned them out- and ate about 1/4 a lb in the car on the way home! Their selection is awesome, and they have a restaurant too (kids love their Mac and cheese).

🥧 Pick up sweet and savory pies from . I’m embarrassed to say that it wasn’t until my late 40’s that I tried a savory pies from Marion’s, and the seafood pie is my favorite savory pies I’ve ever eaten. Baileyberry is my favorite sweet pie. Tip: if you love alone like I do or there are just two of you, order the large size, cut up into slices and freeze half. Then you won’t get sick of eating it and you’ll have some in the future!

My top is from , and I ordered it as soon as I saw the back bow details. It’s smocked and comfy, and it’s the cutest madras piece I’ve ever owned- and that’s saying something! Linked in stories and . Midi is old .

How was your Saturday?

25/06/2025

Hardcore lobster summer, and this song is absolutely hysterical!

People write some funny sh*t, and I needed to hear some funny sh*t.

Anyway, my big new today, for people who actually read my captions, is that I started physical therapy! I moved my ankle around and rode the bike with my boot on for 6 whole minutes! Baby steps, literally!

About the :
Hat: last year
Tote: current
Shoe: current
Bracelet: custom ordered with Rosa rugosa petals- happy birthday today, my friend!
Dress: , use code PREPPY for 10% off.

24/06/2025

I used to take rides around beautiful coastal towns and get so jealous of big beautiful homes and cute cottages.

When would I have that big home and that family to fill it? When would I have the cottage by the sea where I could walk to the beach?

The answer to the former is never. The answer to the latter: tbd if ever.

But now, when I take those drives, the questions are: How can I get my hydrangeas to grow like that? What type of roses are those and how long did it take those people (or their gardeners) to grow them? Will I ever have a hydrangea set up like that?

And I am simplifying the things that I want so drastically, as I have been since 2020. But especially since 10/7/23.

My birthday is coming up. Would you be interested in seeing what my birthday list looks like? I think you would be surprised!

21/06/2025

Happy summer from the Cape!

It has been another gorgeous day today, and if I didn’t have this busted leg, I would have been on the beach the entire day, and I would still be there.

I had big plans for a day of local Cape summer fun, but , as anyone just a little over a month post-surgery will tell you, your stamina just isn’t there.

I made it to ‘s outdoor bazaar, where indoor I scored a nwt Lilly casual dress for half off and the cutest madras saddle bag for $14, got my first at (where I was able to donate to Sandy Paws Rescue in MV) and then took a lovely drive back along 6A to see everything blooming and put my foot up.

That resulted in a 1.5 hour nap, and although I wanted to go back out to for ‘s HENSC Fest, I had and still have no energy.

This recovery is no joke, and I still feel like an incomplete person.

More rest, and, like many others, I’ll watch Jaws tonight.

My happy dress is from .cecile_ from last year. Another small brand with a woman behind it who I met in Florida and adore her and her whole family!

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14/06/2025

It’s as if he came to bid me farewell!

This was actually last night, picture credits to my friend .sun because my phone died.

But after winning a charcuterie board and champers at trivia (again, credit to Sara because unless it’s 80’s music, I’m not so good at trivia), we walked over to watch the sunset and I spotted this little dude.

He swooshed right on up to us, and I almost fell off of my scooter with joy. He’s just a baby, and I really wanted to kiss his little snout.

I can literally count on one hand the number of people in Sarasota who were actually physically here for me during what was truly one of the most hellish times of my life.

Sara was of of them, and she was traveling on business half of the time!

I’m not one to give advice, and if I did, I’m not sure who listen, but, and I say this at the end of every season down here, if you are by yourself and your enjoy dining out, go out, sit at the bar, have a nice brunch and strike up a conversation if there is another solo diner who is friendly next to you.

That’s how I met Sara on the last Sunday of my first season two days before I left, and we’ve been friends ever since. How fortunate I am to have met her!

Thanks for closing our season three with me, .sun , and for sticking with me and helping me find a safe place to land. I wouldn’t want to close out the season every year with anyone else.

12/06/2025

Saying goodbye to a few of my favorite haunts, including and my fave mezcal strawberry tequila drink.

Today was a tcb (taking care of business) day, and I tied up a loose end that made me feel really great!

One more full day and then hopefully a return to my home!

I think this picture about sums my energy level.

If you know this song, I 💗 you. I do not 💗 mussels.

12/06/2025

It’s officially my last few days in Florida for the season, and I cannot WAIT to get back to MA!

I’ve got a lot to do, but I am checking off a bunch of must visit spots before I leave.

As with everywhere that I live and visit, I have favorite neighborhoods that I love to just drive around and admire.

No FOMO- it’s too close to the bay, and I don’t need a big house that I cannot afford.

But it’s fun to look! And Sarasota is so big. There is so much to discover!!

Do you enjoy driving around looking at nice homes and landscaping?

08/06/2025

Frosé, a delightful lunch setting, a paved path that led to a neck with beautiful 365 beach views with a 2 hour catch up call with one of my previous ride or die friends and delicious lavender and bramble berry.

It was a good Saturday.
Just what I needed!

07/06/2025

Happy Friday! It is Friday, right?

I sometimes forget what day it is.

Today is the first day that I’ve put on an actual dress since April!

This block print hydrangea beauty arrived the other day, and I had to take her out for a spin when I took myself out to lunch on the bay today.

Here is a little tip to pass on to you in case you are ever scooter bound: when you have a timer on and you are trying to “get the shot,” don’t let go of the handlebars. Because then it will roll away from you into the street. And you will have to hop to get it. And it will not go well.

Back to the dress: it’s already sold out in some sizes, so if you love hydrangea block print like me, go and grab it before it’s gone.

Linked in my , and I am wearing a M.

05/06/2025

The absolute happiest I have been in more than a month!

I used to get up at 7:30 to play pickleball before work. Today, I got up for an early pick up to go to the beach.

Siesta Key beach offers complimentary wheel chairs! You just show your license, and you can borrow one!

I obviously could not have done this alone, because the wheels on these things are a beast.

So THANK YOU, HEATHER, for giving me a few hours at my happiest in place : the beach!

There was a delightful breeze with a little cloud cover- so no humidity and about 10 degrees cooler than inland.

My kaftan is on sale for $50 off, and it’s so light and breezy. Dm for a link, and linked in my .

A dole whip (spiked) has never tasted so good in my entire life. And I’ve had a few!

02/06/2025

THIS.HITS.DIRECTLY.

Before I broke my ankle, I had been walking almost every Sunday with the Sarasota group. is a peaceful walk, where Jewish and non Jewish people who care about the hostages being released peacefully walk/run carrying posters of hostages to bring attention to the fact that there are still hostages being held in Gaza by Hamas.

It has now been 604 days.
It is estimated that 20 of these completely innocent people are still living.
All 58 need to be returned to their families IMMEDIATELY!

Our branch is organized and run by a NON-JEW who cares and who wanted to do something to help after 10/7/23, so she volunteered and does a wonderful job.

Every Sunday, she states that the march is peaceful, that the police have been alerted to our presence and that we are not to engage with any hostility that we may encounter. I personally have only heard one younger woman yell “free Palestine,” and, otherwise, Sarasota has been, knock wood, very supportive.

What happened today, with an extremist as***le throwing Molotov cocktails at the Boulder, CO group, has shaken me to the core.

We have children and grandchildren that join their parents and grandparents to walk with us. One couple who joined us lost 4 family members in Israel on 10/7.

THIS FEELS LIKE IT HAPPENED TO OUR GROUP.

Now these peaceful marches are paused.
Peaceful advocacy for the hostages has been suppressed.

Children. This person hurt and intended to kill Jewish children.

If you are not speaking up for your Jewish friends at this point, especially after the recents events in this country and today, YOU HAVE NO JEWISH FRIENDS.

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01/06/2025

Celebrating little victories!

I took myself out of to dinner at

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