by Allegra Osati | Jul 8, 2016 | Life, Wedding
Seven years ago today, I started dating my best friend. Seven years ago today, we started on the beautiful journey that has shaped our very existence – that is love. We were so young, and yet we laid the first foundation of this perfectly imperfect life. Five...
by Allegra Osati | May 26, 2016 | Life
Where there is a will, there is a way. I used a variation on this motto as the slogan for my campaign to become student body president in sixth grade. Since I attended a private elementary school, I remained there instead of moving on to middle school like my fellow...
by Allegra Osati | Apr 27, 2016 | Life
As I write this, I am sitting with my husband on the balcony of our Los Angeles condo, sipping coffee while the birds sing. I come from a family of nature people, but I have never been one. I’ve always been a city girl, preferring a manicured park over the crunchy...
by Allegra Osati | Apr 8, 2016 | Events, Life
I have been a fan of Harry Potter since I was eleven. I received my Hogwarts acceptance letter in the form of a hardback version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and for the next 10 years I clung to every page and watched every minute as soon as the...
by Allegra Osati | Feb 22, 2016 | Life
While we were Sunday-brunching on Valentine’s Day to celebrate my mom’s successful completion of the LA Marathon, Sohrab and I chatted up my cousin, TC, about healthy eating and exercise habits. She really inspired us to change things up, and we decided...
by Allegra Osati | Feb 15, 2016 | Events, Life
My mom ran the LA Marathon yesterday. It was her first one. She decided about a year ago that she was gonna go for it, and she’s been training ever since. She ran 26.2 miles in 4 hours and 38 minutes. She came in at #6,032 of about 26,000 people. That’s...